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| D&D version of her, the scion version has no tail. |
Background: Aki's conception was problematic to say the least in that she was certainly conceived after her supposed father died. Her mother, Kimun, reported that her husband came home from a position abroad one night and they celebrated as long parted lovers do. He left out the door the next day saying that he would return and the next she heard from him was a report that he had died in a car accident on another continent on the same day that he supposedly returned home.
At first Kimun and others assumed that the tryst was a matter of a ghost saying a final farewell and she sought a purification from the touch of the dead. Then she discovered that she was pregnant. She carried the child to term and gave birth to a daughter she named Aki. Aki was prone to sudden shifts of mood but was mostly well meaning just unfocused. Kimun sought help and learned that the apparition that had come to her was actually an oni with unknown intentions. Which is when she received a message to expect the creature soon and make his daughter ready for him.
Terrified for herself and her daughter, Kimun enacted a desperate plan. She set out a tea ceremony for her visitor who decided to appear in her husband's form, unaged from the last time he had appeared. Over the course of the meeting, she worked in subtle appeals to the Kami hoping against hope that they would help a simple woman such as herself. Luckily for her the Kami, or at least a Kami, heard and by the time the oni realized there was real power working against him, it was too late for him to act. He was forced to relinquish all his claim and influence over the child.
Unfortunately, Aki had snuck into a nearby room and witnessed the event and so she was present during the confrontation. As such while she was purified of the oni nature, it still left its mark on her. She had horns and her skin would range from shades of blue and red depending on her mood. Her mother worried that she would be shunned wherever they went. They'd already had to move from their first home due to the stigma of Aki being a cursed child, but there was no where to go where they could escape her cursed appearance. Fortunately, a cheerful woman stopped by their isolated house one day and asked for a chance to rest her feet. As she "just happened to chance" upon seeing Aki, she thanked her hostess by teaching Kimun a simple tea brew to help Aki conceal her curse.
It is the only tea that Aki finds very distasteful.
Description: Aki was very young when she witnessed the tea ceremony that saved her from whatever plans her oni father had. It has shaped her appreciations and she has acquired an intense fascination for tea and tea ceremony as a result. She is fascinated and nearly obsessed with learning about all the different ways various cultures prepare and drink tea. She is accumulating recipes, paraphenalia, and the like, including any sorts of tea that is rumored to have miraculous properties.
At first Kimun and others assumed that the tryst was a matter of a ghost saying a final farewell and she sought a purification from the touch of the dead. Then she discovered that she was pregnant. She carried the child to term and gave birth to a daughter she named Aki. Aki was prone to sudden shifts of mood but was mostly well meaning just unfocused. Kimun sought help and learned that the apparition that had come to her was actually an oni with unknown intentions. Which is when she received a message to expect the creature soon and make his daughter ready for him.
Terrified for herself and her daughter, Kimun enacted a desperate plan. She set out a tea ceremony for her visitor who decided to appear in her husband's form, unaged from the last time he had appeared. Over the course of the meeting, she worked in subtle appeals to the Kami hoping against hope that they would help a simple woman such as herself. Luckily for her the Kami, or at least a Kami, heard and by the time the oni realized there was real power working against him, it was too late for him to act. He was forced to relinquish all his claim and influence over the child.
Unfortunately, Aki had snuck into a nearby room and witnessed the event and so she was present during the confrontation. As such while she was purified of the oni nature, it still left its mark on her. She had horns and her skin would range from shades of blue and red depending on her mood. Her mother worried that she would be shunned wherever they went. They'd already had to move from their first home due to the stigma of Aki being a cursed child, but there was no where to go where they could escape her cursed appearance. Fortunately, a cheerful woman stopped by their isolated house one day and asked for a chance to rest her feet. As she "just happened to chance" upon seeing Aki, she thanked her hostess by teaching Kimun a simple tea brew to help Aki conceal her curse.
It is the only tea that Aki finds very distasteful.
Description: Aki was very young when she witnessed the tea ceremony that saved her from whatever plans her oni father had. It has shaped her appreciations and she has acquired an intense fascination for tea and tea ceremony as a result. She is fascinated and nearly obsessed with learning about all the different ways various cultures prepare and drink tea. She is accumulating recipes, paraphenalia, and the like, including any sorts of tea that is rumored to have miraculous properties.
She is not particularly attractive or ugly with black hair and high forehead, about which she gets occasional comments. When her disguise fails, her oni horns grow out of her brow. Her skin ranges from red to blue dependent on her current mood. She endeavors to keep herself blue as much as possible and focusing on making tea helps with that, but when her temper runs, she can turn very red. This appears subtly even in her disguise as a ruddy appearance.
Divine Patron: Ama-no-Uzume
Origin Level
Primary Path: Role Path: A mistress of tea in all of its forms. - Culture, Empathy, Medicine
Contact: Goro Mitsukuni, Businessman and client of the family tea room
Connections:Tea ceremony aficionados, event coordinators, suppliers
Access: Favors from clients
Secondary Path: Origin Path: Cursed conception and miraculous emancipation - Close Combat, Occult, Integrity
Contact: Owushi Kigami, scholar and researcher
Connections: Buddhist and shinto priests
Access: Shrines and temples
Tertiary Path: Pantheon Path: Caught the eye of a kindly woman - Culture, Persuasion, Academics
Contact: Amane Izumi, boistrous innkeeper
Connections: Artists, monkeys, performers
Access: The Izumi inn.
Abilities:
Academics *
Athletics *
Close Combat **
Culture **** (Tea Customs)
Empathy *** (Seeing past Etiquette)
Integrity **** (Willpower)
Firearms
Integrity **** (Willpower)
Firearms
Leadership
Medicine *** (Folk Medicine)
Occult **
Persuasion *** (Calming Manner)
Pilot
Science
Subterfuge
Survival
Technology
Attributes: Favored Force - Mental, Social, Physical
Force
- Intellect ****
- Might ***
- Presence ****
Finesse
- Cunning **
- Dexterity **
- Manipulation ****
Resilience
- Resolve ***
- Stamina ***
- Composure ***
Legend: 0
Condition: Oni-Touched
While she has been purified many times over, her father managed one last trick in petty spite that causes Aki to naturally appear with red or blue skin, depending on mood, and small horns. There is a brew of tea she can drink to keep herself appearing human, but she finds that it tastes disgusting and sometimes "forgets" to drink it. It is the only tea she hates. When this causes a significant complication add one Momentum to the pool.
Calling: Trickster
Condition: Oni-Touched
While she has been purified many times over, her father managed one last trick in petty spite that causes Aki to naturally appear with red or blue skin, depending on mood, and small horns. There is a brew of tea she can drink to keep herself appearing human, but she finds that it tastes disgusting and sometimes "forgets" to drink it. It is the only tea she hates. When this causes a significant complication add one Momentum to the pool.
Calling: Trickster
Knacks: In Sheep's Clothing
Birthrights:
- Jade-Clay Tea Set - Relic *
- A tea-set made from clay colored to appear as fine jade. It was made with various elements intended to leech into the tea brewed in it to enhance the flavor and benefits.
- +1 Enhancement to brewing tea and performing tea ceremonies.
- Rakuten Eagles Bat - Relic *
- A baseball bat that one day she found on hand in time to defend herself from bullies. The owner was the husband of a very outspoken but kindly inn-keeper and after some loud "conversation" where Aki wasn't sure whether the two were laughing or arguing, they insisted she keep it.
- Brutal, Bashing, Melee, Stun, Pushing (3 tags)
- +1 Enhancement when fighting in defense of somebody or something.
- Guide - Kimun Satou - Guide **
- Aki's mother has educated herself a lot on the nature of various spirits dangerous and benevolent. Her daughter helps her run the tea house though she suspects Aki's destiny will be larger than this small place and she has drilled her daughter on a number of old tales.
- Asset Skills: Occult, Culture
- Guide Stunt - Catalog of cautionary tales - (1-3 successes) Gain an enhancement toward attempts to notice points of sensitive etiquette or occult ongoings for the scene.
- Calling: Creator
Hero Level
Description: Having realized the influence that Ama-no-Uzume has had on her life, from things as small as providing the bat that Aki regularly uses to protect herself and others from danger to as profound as being the Kami that took notice of her mother's plea has shaken a lot of Aki's perception of the world. She has since endeavored to live up to the Kami's attention on her as much as possible. She has been accumulating a lot of knowledge about many things, though mostly tea, and she is capable of appeasing many people, cutting straight to the point while staying as serene and polite as a tea mistress...or else as raging and direct as a construction worker.
Ama-no-Uzume has been suggesting that Aki no longer needs to disguise herself and has even noted that the recipe tastes terrible for a reason, but Aki has stubbornly been holding to concealing the left-over taint of her father's influence on her.
Force
Knacks: In Sheep's Clothing (Trickster), Flawless Platonic Ideal (Creator), Innate Toolkit (Creator), The Unlimited Quartermaster (Creator), Immunization Booster (Healer)
Keywords: Impassioned (Creator), Serene (Creator), Tea (Creator), Purifier (Healer), Disguise (Trickster)
Title: The Tea Mistress
Purviews:
Birthrights:
Ama-no-Uzume has been suggesting that Aki no longer needs to disguise herself and has even noted that the recipe tastes terrible for a reason, but Aki has stubbornly been holding to concealing the left-over taint of her father's influence on her.
Divine Patron: Ama-no-Uzume
Primary Path: Role Path: A mistress of tea in all of its forms. - Culture, Empathy, Medicine
Contact: Goro Mitsukuni, Businessman and client of the family tea room
Connections:Tea ceremony aficionados, event coordinators, suppliers
Access: Favors from clients
Secondary Path: Origin Path: Cursed conception and miraculous emancipation - Close Combat, Occult, Integrity
Contact: Owushi Kigami, scholar and researcher
Connections: Buddhist and shinto priests
Access: Shrines and temples
Tertiary Path: Pantheon Path: Caught the eye of a forthright kami. - Culture, Persuasion, Academics
Contact: Amane Izumi, incarnate of Ama-no-Uzume
Connections: Artists, monkeys, performers
Access: The Izumi inn.
Abilities:
Academics *
Athletics *
Close Combat **
Culture **** (Tea Customs)
Empathy *** (Seeing past Etiquette)
Integrity **** (Willpower)
Firearms
Integrity **** (Willpower)
Firearms
Leadership
Medicine *** (Folk Medicine)
Occult **
Persuasion *** (Calming Manner)
Pilot
Science
Subterfuge
Survival
Technology
Attributes: Favored Force - Mental, Social, Physical
Force
- Intellect ****
- Might ***
- Presence ****
Finesse
- Cunning **
- Dexterity **
- Manipulation ****
Resilience
- Resolve ***
- Stamina ***
- Composure ***
Legend: 1
Condition: Oni-Touched
While she has been purified many times over, her father managed one last trick in petty spite that causes Aki to naturally appear with red or blue skin, depending on mood, and small horns. There is a brew of tea she can drink to keep herself appearing human, but she finds that it tastes disgusting and sometimes "forgets" to drink it. It is the only tea she hates. When this causes a significant complication add one Momentum to the pool.
Calling: Trickster *, Creator ***, Healer *
Condition: Oni-Touched
While she has been purified many times over, her father managed one last trick in petty spite that causes Aki to naturally appear with red or blue skin, depending on mood, and small horns. There is a brew of tea she can drink to keep herself appearing human, but she finds that it tastes disgusting and sometimes "forgets" to drink it. It is the only tea she hates. When this causes a significant complication add one Momentum to the pool.
Calling: Trickster *, Creator ***, Healer *
Knacks: In Sheep's Clothing (Trickster), Flawless Platonic Ideal (Creator), Innate Toolkit (Creator), The Unlimited Quartermaster (Creator), Immunization Booster (Healer)
Keywords: Impassioned (Creator), Serene (Creator), Tea (Creator), Purifier (Healer), Disguise (Trickster)
Title: The Tea Mistress
Purviews:
- Innate - Yaoyorozu-no-Kamigami
- Innate - Artistry (Tea)
- Fortune
- Epic Strength
Birthrights:
- Jade-Clay Tea Set - Relic *****
- A tea-set made from clay colored to appear as fine jade. It was made with various elements intended to leech into the tea brewed in it to enhance the flavor and benefits.
- Purview: Fortune
- Motif: Everyone's Cup of Tea
- +3 Enhancement to brewing tea and performing tea ceremonies.
- Rakuten Eagles Bat - Relic ****
- A baseball bat that one day she found on hand in time to defend herself from bullies. The owner was the husband of a very outspoken but kindly inn-keeper and after some loud "conversation" where Aki wasn't sure whether the two were laughing or arguing, they insisted she keep it.
- Purview: Epic Strength
- Motif: Render My Curse Into Power
- Brutal (1), Bashing(0), Melee (0), Stun (1), Pushing(1)
- +1 Enhancement when fighting in defense of somebody or something.
- +1 Enhancement when fighting oni.
- Guide - Kimun Satou - Guide **
- Aki's mother has educated herself a lot on the nature of various spirits dangerous and benevolent. Her daughter helps her run the tea house though she has always suspected that Aki's destiny would be larger than this small place and she has drilled her daughter on a number of old tales.
- Asset Skills: Occult, Culture
- Guide Stunt - Catalog of cautionary tales - (1-3 successes) Gain an enhancement toward attempts to notice points of sensitive etiquette or occult ongoings for the scene.
- Calling: Creator
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