Post by Rui on Apr 16, 2010 15:46:50 GMT -5
R u i {updated, alot}
FROM HERE TO THERE
FULL NAME: Rui
ALIAS / NICKNAMES: None.
AGE: Appears to be in her twenties.
BIRTHDATE: Unknown.
RACE: Dominantly human. Recessively an ice demon.
HOMELAND: An obliterated village in the eastern continents.
SOCIAL STATUS: Commoner.
OCCUPATION: Jester.
ALIAS / NICKNAMES: None.
AGE: Appears to be in her twenties.
BIRTHDATE: Unknown.
RACE: Dominantly human. Recessively an ice demon.
HOMELAND: An obliterated village in the eastern continents.
SOCIAL STATUS: Commoner.
OCCUPATION: Jester.
DOWN TO THE FINER POINTS
HEIGHT: 5' 5"
WEIGHT: 110lbs
HAIR:
A head of striking untamed silver, actual length not shown.
EYES:
Dyed the depths of the ocean, they closely resemble sapphires.
GENERAL APPEARANCE:
She might belong to the lower class amongst the commoners, but Rui takes much pride in herself. Her clothes are of the finest materials; Silk, leather, gems, you name it. She however does not flamboyantly showcase such luxuries she could afford, only keeping it simple in fashion but highest in quality. After all, Rui must present herself well in front of nobles as often as she would've liked, and it would do the royals no good if their servants resembled slaves or beggars. Her pockets would also suffer, were her masters to become dissatisfied with her.
Rui has an unusual boyish charm to her, her very self trapped in time at an adolescent stage, forbidding the definitions of her gender from surfacing. Her skin as fair as snow, with a tinge of yellow told hints of her origins. It is also cold to the touch, but dry rather than clammy. Decades, maybe even centuries of living have caused her to become jaded, melancholy forming on her soft, gentle features occasionally. Her frame is lean, not a piece of flab in sight, and her height complimented the width of her body. With hair unkempt tucked into her clothes, and hiding a good quarter of her face, and her alluring eyes often darting from person to person, Rui strikes interest in audiences as a mysterious and intriguing creature. She is lastly, someone who shows little expression if it is not a default smile of innocent mischief, or perhaps a secretive grin.
PICTURE:
PERSONALITY:
"You are a fool."
While some people have but one unique personality, or perhaps even a handful, Rui claims to possess two- What's real, and what's not. Her personality can not be defined. As a jester she had long forsaken a good part of herself. Humiliation was something she frequently experiences, but she is, or has chosen, to be incapable of feeling shame, as is with sadness, sorrow, hatred or the slightest of unease. She was only familiar with the many faces of happiness and joy. Rui is often calm if she is not playing a fool, preferring to observe from afar and watch things unfold. As herself, she is a fairly quiet and thoughtful individual, the only clue to her mind is through her lips. A smile perhaps, or a pout, or "Oh, that smirk! She must be up to no good", so on and so forth. As the enigma that she is, it is difficult to really tell if Rui is a friend or foe, especially when her unacknowledged secrets tend to give off an ominous air about her.
But as a fool, she is animated, loud, and usually tries to tell a good story, something she wasn't particularly good at compared to performing tricks. She is also straightforward and blatant, unafraid of offending when she is pretending. In a way she becomes arrogant and boastful, dismissing anything and everything which seems troublesome to her.
Although she may appear callous given her indifference towards life and everything else, it is not to say Rui is without a heart. She often feels compelled to make people smile, as if by doing so they were also experiencing joy on behalf of the jester. Basically, Rui is a light-hearted playful person with a sporadic personality, but she is also relatively easy to get along with despite all that.
LIKES:
Cold environments
People watching
Anything interesting
Drifting about
Moonlight
DISLIKES:
Bloody violence
Physical labor
Uptight and overly serious people
The sun
Generally being warm
HOBBIES:
Making ice sculptures of varying sizes. On special occasions, they would not melt.
Occasionally, she plays mellow tunes on a stone flute.
WEIGHT: 110lbs
HAIR:
A head of striking untamed silver, actual length not shown.
EYES:
Dyed the depths of the ocean, they closely resemble sapphires.
GENERAL APPEARANCE:
She might belong to the lower class amongst the commoners, but Rui takes much pride in herself. Her clothes are of the finest materials; Silk, leather, gems, you name it. She however does not flamboyantly showcase such luxuries she could afford, only keeping it simple in fashion but highest in quality. After all, Rui must present herself well in front of nobles as often as she would've liked, and it would do the royals no good if their servants resembled slaves or beggars. Her pockets would also suffer, were her masters to become dissatisfied with her.
Rui has an unusual boyish charm to her, her very self trapped in time at an adolescent stage, forbidding the definitions of her gender from surfacing. Her skin as fair as snow, with a tinge of yellow told hints of her origins. It is also cold to the touch, but dry rather than clammy. Decades, maybe even centuries of living have caused her to become jaded, melancholy forming on her soft, gentle features occasionally. Her frame is lean, not a piece of flab in sight, and her height complimented the width of her body. With hair unkempt tucked into her clothes, and hiding a good quarter of her face, and her alluring eyes often darting from person to person, Rui strikes interest in audiences as a mysterious and intriguing creature. She is lastly, someone who shows little expression if it is not a default smile of innocent mischief, or perhaps a secretive grin.
PICTURE:
PERSONALITY:
"You are a fool."
While some people have but one unique personality, or perhaps even a handful, Rui claims to possess two- What's real, and what's not. Her personality can not be defined. As a jester she had long forsaken a good part of herself. Humiliation was something she frequently experiences, but she is, or has chosen, to be incapable of feeling shame, as is with sadness, sorrow, hatred or the slightest of unease. She was only familiar with the many faces of happiness and joy. Rui is often calm if she is not playing a fool, preferring to observe from afar and watch things unfold. As herself, she is a fairly quiet and thoughtful individual, the only clue to her mind is through her lips. A smile perhaps, or a pout, or "Oh, that smirk! She must be up to no good", so on and so forth. As the enigma that she is, it is difficult to really tell if Rui is a friend or foe, especially when her unacknowledged secrets tend to give off an ominous air about her.
But as a fool, she is animated, loud, and usually tries to tell a good story, something she wasn't particularly good at compared to performing tricks. She is also straightforward and blatant, unafraid of offending when she is pretending. In a way she becomes arrogant and boastful, dismissing anything and everything which seems troublesome to her.
Although she may appear callous given her indifference towards life and everything else, it is not to say Rui is without a heart. She often feels compelled to make people smile, as if by doing so they were also experiencing joy on behalf of the jester. Basically, Rui is a light-hearted playful person with a sporadic personality, but she is also relatively easy to get along with despite all that.
LIKES:
Cold environments
People watching
Anything interesting
Drifting about
Moonlight
DISLIKES:
Bloody violence
Physical labor
Uptight and overly serious people
The sun
Generally being warm
HOBBIES:
Making ice sculptures of varying sizes. On special occasions, they would not melt.
Occasionally, she plays mellow tunes on a stone flute.
BELOW THE SURFACE
SPECIAL SKILLS:
Rui has multiple talents, many of which serves as tools when she performs. Linguistically, Rui speaks Japanese as a native but English in Terre de Conte. Practically, she is fairly flexible, able to contort her body in ways which makes most simple folks wide-eyed in awe. It is also such flexibility and the added agility which makes her capable of easily maneuvering her way out of physically constraining situations. She also has acute senses, mainly hearing and an undependable sixth sense (which often serves to be accurate, but she wasn't one to depend on mere feelings). Lastly, Rui knows some cheap street magic to brighten up the day of both children and dismayed ladies alike.
WEAPONS:
Stone flute [Image]
Works well as a blunt weapon, works just as well as a shield. Rui is skilled in using her flute to disarm enemies, knock them unconscious or to redirect attacks. There's no known history to the existence of the flute, but it has been with her for as long as she could remember. It even has a name engraved into it which she had adopted, the only clue there is to who she is or should've been.
MAGICAL ABILITIES:
Manipulating water
With an uncanny affinity with the element of water, Rui is capable of manipulating liquid, from rivers to mere moisture in the air. On certain occasions she is even capable of materializing water from her bare hands, though rarely as it uses up too much energy as well as her own body's fluids. Water in its solid form is also no challenge to her. Rui can freeze most liquid aside from blood regardless of volume and it is also a non-destructive spell. Most objects would return to normal once the ice melts, albeit a little soaked. But when she becomes aggressive, the ice may never melt. To a point, the entire being might be turned to ice and shattered. Overusing the ability to materialize water or ice can ultimately kill her as the skill follows the law of Equivalent Exchange.
D'illusion
Because Rui makes a living as an entertainer, surely she would have certain tricks up her sleeves to lure her audience in. The very spell which makes her job a breeze is its ability to create illusions. Her spell is physically harmless and usually casted on herself but affects others who set eyes on her. Rui is able to mask herself or others behind her illusions, either controlling the images to entertain or to play with others' minds. Her favorite usage of the spell is to make her ice sculptures or paintings seemingly come alive. The spell is immediately ceased if Rui's concentration is disrupted. She often ends her incantation with an audible "Hanatsu" for the spell to take effect.
FAMILY:
"I am bounded to neither status nor family. Ties as such are but a hindrance."
BACKGROUND:
Rui was born without much knowledge of her parents, neither their name nor face. But she have always been aware of them having an unnatural forbidden love between that of a human and a demon. And as a cause, she was deemed an outcast in her deceased mother's village, and eventually forced to die in a blizzard by petty villagers. Unfortunately as petty as they were, they were just as stupid. Rui was an illegitimate child of a powerful ice demon from the eastern regions, a king of his element capable of summoning blizzards and snowstorms. Naturally, throwing such a child into her natural habitat was a ridiculous move. She was protected by the snow and taken in by creatures never before seen but revered to as guardians of the snow lands. Following Rui's birth but unknown to her, her father always had a watchful eye. Upon learning of his child's banishment and supposed "death" sentence, he flew into an uproar and wiped out the entire village which he felt had done his bloodline wrong.
In the hands of mystical creatures Rui couldn't quite describe; They appeared human to her with the exception of an unusual amount of fur. As they walked on two feet and spoke the language of humans, the ice child simply assumed that they were of the same kind. Nevertheless, they were family. From them Rui learned to hone her innate ability to manipulate ice like her father was capable of. They hid nothing of her heritage, knowing all and never attempting to hide anything the child should know. It took Rui no effort to master her element and as soon as she was ready, she took the opportunity to venture outside of the snow lands.
Rui traveled for days, weeks, perhaps even months from the east until she found herself in Terra De Conte. A foreign land that felt a little too warm for her. The news of Anactoria's search for a consort reached her ears the moment she arrived, explaining the crowd and flux of people not at all looking local. But Rui had no interest in vying for the princess's hand, having little impression in romancing. Entering the City of Venus, she spent many days observing the people, especially performers from whom she picked up cheap street tricks and developed a playful curious manner in behavior. Following them, Rui began performing as well, using her mastery of manipulating water and ice under the pretense of magic. She kept to herself as well as she could, keeping her acts low-profile as who knew how people would react if they knew or even suspect that a demon was among them.
Word of her "amazing" performances and illusions soon reached the court, gaining the interest of a particular minister. He tested Rui, determined to know more to her "magic" then simple figurines and deception, and though she tried hard not to expose too much of her abilities, the minister could tell. Without second thought, Rui was recruited into the court as a jester, serving directly under the minister as a performer and at times, an informant which she accepts out of interest. After all, who would take a fool seriously?
More snippets into her life:
1. [the Fool.]
THE MASTERMIND
ALIAS: Rui
ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS: -
HOW YOU GOT HERE: Sapphis I, HothCharm, YuriRP... You kinda see the same ads all over.
NOTES: Rui is cold blooded. Literally. Her heart crystallized and her blood runs very very cold. It's probably not red either... Mmm...
And what's a demon without a provocative alternate form :B
Appearance: Rui loses the concealing outfit she wears as a jester, preferring to expose herself as much as possible for as a demon, she absolutely detests any remote feeling of warmth. Her physique changes, in height and she is clearly more endowed given the lack of clothes hiding her body. Her hair also grows out longer than normal and her eyes changes from the usual blue to a pale gold. More prominent features of her demon form consists of a slight increase in the length of her ears, heightening her hearing threefold at the least, and a set of horns said to resemble that of her father's. Though it is not mentioned what animal her race can be related to.
Personality: Like her jester self, Rui's personality remains very much the same. She's just as curious and playful, but her manner of speaking matures. But unlike the mysterious contemplative persona, her demon side does not hold back in expressing herself and has a tendency to be more aggressive and ruthless in dealing with pests. Killing in a heartbeat is a definite possibility.
Other: Rui rarely releases her demonic side unless she's trying to escape a situation which requires her to "disappear" from sight or vice versa. In short, as a demon she would be the ultimate culprit and as a human, Rui's merely a passerby who happens to be in the area.
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