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Post by Mayor on Aug 22, 2013 17:23:11 GMT -5
Name: Juniper "June" Crown Age: 32 Race: Human Class: Exorcist Appearance: June is a well-traveled woman, constantly moving through the world to complete her task, and as such, carries the appearance of burden. Her skin is a rich olive brown, toned by countless days spent wandering in the sun's brightness. Her hair is a darkly raven black, and seemingly tumbles across her head, its shoulder length complimented by the various flares and strands shooting off in countless directions, with her bangs parted left so as to not interfere with her vision. Her face is warm and round in its features, with full lips, a soft nose and compassionate eyes. Though minor wrinkles have begun to form on her face, June makes no effort to hide them behind any makeup, and all marks on her face exist along her “smile lines”.
These natural smile lines are contrasted greatly by June's limbs and exposed bits of torso, which are littered with scars in the form of arcane symbols from various cultures. And though the scars are abrupt and by no means pretty, June wears them with elegant pride, completely unashamed of them. Her low-cut black shirt billows in the wind, its light fabric fitting snuggly with a visible golden tie just below her slight bust, with the shirt flowing beneath the tie. The sleeves are form fitting around her arms, though the cut-off ends near the elbows flare like the rest of the shirt. Patterns of various golden circles and ovals adorn the shirt like protective chains, and are matched by a physical pair of golden bangles on her wrists. A pair of crimson red pants fit June's legs and run to just below her knees, their form fitting nature a contrast to her billowing shirt. June's feet are exposed and heavily calloused, because though June does own shoes for when weather starts demanding it, she prefers the feeling of the world directly beneath her feet.
Physique: June's frame is in terrific condition, toned and visibly muscular, as befitting of someone who is as active as June. In combat, June's relatively lanky frame is constantly moving, as all of her abilities require physical contact, so June regularly trains in athletic movement. Though by no means supernatural, June's agility is stunningly high for humans, and her focus on a highly kinetic fighting style, dependent on various strikes from all of her limbs, grants her a great limberness. June is also notable for a great sense of balance, enabling her to hold bodily positions few others could, a great combination with her litheness. And though she focuses on dealing physical blows, June herself has strength befitting someone who performs minimal strength training and carries little, as her focus for strength is more spiritual than physical.
Personality: June is enthusiastic in her mission to eradicate sinister spirits and demonic temperaments from the world, to an almost unparalleled extent. Some mistake this for a zealot's dedication, but it is in fact something much more pure and undistilled. June possesses an inherent empathy exceeding that of most people, a trait so powerful that June's temperament is often influenced by the company around her. As an independent exorcist, free from the influence of any holy order and the bureaucracy that requires restrictive procedures, June is free to roam and meet those whom she pleases.
Her goal is to eradicate all spiritual and demonic interferences from the natural beauty of the world, and June is bluntly black and white about the issue. Those with a demonic taint to their bloodline are persecuted just the same as a true demon, and spirits both malevolent and benevolent are subject to the same will for banishment, because they are ultimately the same. June views herself as a hero, protecting the common man from the threats of those who would inflict evil, though she would never state this view outright. She is simply someone with a mission and the means to accomplish it.
June is a delight around those who are untainted. She is kind, world-wise and motherly for those who require her to act as such. June exists to serve those who need protection from the corruptions of the world, and tries to fulfill that work as empathetically as she can. To those who would introduce those corruptions, or those who have already been tainted, June is a merciless, single-mindedly driven exterminator. She is happy to do her job, and is happy that she's great at it.
Element: Ethereal Abilities: Reference Technique ~ Tome of Stored Knowledge June's memory on its own is nothing special, far from the eideticism one would expect from someone with June's range and depth of knowledge in all things spiritual and demonic. June is an expert because of her self-made tome, an impressive magical tool which is capable of “eating” other books, and then processing the information and breaking it down for easy reference by June. Though her personal tome is only three inches thick, it contains dozens of exorcist-centric works, with cumulative knowledge spanning centuries when applied together.
Thus, June herself doesn't need to be an expert in exorcism on her own, rather she just needs to bring forth her tome, and the answer becomes as simple as opening her tome and finding the answer. A sort of symbiotic relationship exists with June and the tome, such that she can subconsciously open the tome to the page she needs, as the information on the page will alter to match the situation. June can capably search and distill the tome's contents in a matter of seconds to what she requires, before dispelling the tome.
To summon the tome, June must cut open her left palm, and then clench a fist. When released, the tome appears as light flowing out of the wound, and then forms the tome in her palm. June can then browse the tome with her right hand, and when finished, a quick clasping of the book with her left hand causes the book to revert to light, which then rushes back towards the open wound and cauterizes it, leaving another scar on June's engraved body.
Spiritual Threat For a spiritual entity, there is no being they should fear more than June, as she is essentially a spiritual dead zone. The various runes and symbols carved into June's flesh are all the symbols known to June which repel and banish spirits, and the presence of all on her body enables her to fight with a supernatural might against all forms of ethereal being. Not only do they enable June to physically fight spirits, but they also infer her with various traits.
Primary among these is June's immunity to possession or hypnotism, as any attempt at forcing June's will is repelled by four of the symbols adorning her left arm. Next, three symbols along her right leg grant June magnified strength against spiritual beings. Though she herself has no notable inhuman strength, against spiritual beings, June's blows are bone-crushing, and another six symbols on her torso grant June flesh comparable to iron against ethereal attacks.
Perhaps most significant of all, however, are the three symbols running down June's right forearm. They are June's most valuable carvings, as they enable June to “push” possessions out of the objects and beings they possess. If June is capable of striking 8 clean blows against any spirit enacting a possession, she can remove the possessing spirit from its physical form. For ethereal beings, this is the most terrifying trait in June's arsenal, as it enables her to remove them completely from the physical plane, and often leaves them susceptible to true destruction by June's wide arsenal of banishment spells.
Banishment Arts Once a spirit has been purged from its physical vessel, there is still the matter of removing the actual threat from the world. This is where the tome's expansive database of knowledge and the various artifacts which June carries with her come in. Once a spirit has been purged, June is capable of binding it to the golden bangles which adorn her wrists until she is able to actually set up a true exorcism. Because of the amount of work and specificity in dealing with each individual spirit's disposal, June is unable to banish a spirit in combat. Though the rituals are varied, all spells ultimately take five posts to complete.
Morbid Grip Though June is an anti-spirit specialist, she also recognizes that there are various demonic entities in the world, and they require something a bit more physical. So while June has decades of experience in developing techniques and methods to fight ethereal beings, she has only spent a relatively meager three years creating an anti-demon technique. Morbid Grip is the result of that training, and has proven itself effective against more than just demonic entities, and is essentially June's only true defense against physical aggressors.
Though developed and named as a grip, Morbid Grip has applications for her strikes as well. When simple contact is made with June's strikes, a small, wispy, white light can be seen emanating from the point of contact, a minor injection of June's own naturally disruptive mana into the foe. With just a minor exchange, a sharp, intense pain erupts from the point of contact as June interferes with an opponent's mana flow and nerve signals. This combined with June's natural ability grants her the ability to often end fights well before they get serious, June disarming a foe through continuous disruptive blows.
However, these painful strikes pale in comparison to what happens when June can secure a grab on a foe. By feeding and overloading her opponent's body with her own mana, June spurs the growth and rupture of various boils and blisters at the point of contact. Though they are fully treatable and non-life threatening, the excruciating pain, coupled with the possibility of multiple grips, make June a capable combatant against varied opponents. This ability will function through light clothing, but has no effect on inorganic material, and cannot be used through armor.
Money: Yes Items: Dark brown leather satchel, containing: clothing for intense and unfavorable weather, various anti-spirit paraphernalia in the form of tools, talismans and herbs, assorted basic medical supplies, and various hard candies. Vehicle: Legs Story: Theme Song:
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