[WAR Season II RP] Arcane Pokéworld [SU/DT]

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Name: Karai "Kar" Horoshi
Gender: Female
Species: Neko
Age: 22
Team: Phoenix Battalion
Description: The following is the form she's often seen in.

She's 5'6". She has brown eyes, black hair, and her thin fur is golden colored.

She has a small nose and high cheekbones. Her black hair is long down to her hips, a little spiky due to hairstyle, and has wispy bangs that hang low enough to barely cover her eyebrows. The bangs and hair wave when she walks. She also has a tattoo which looks like a necklace and is visible through her fur. See reference picture.

From the shoulders to her fingers, you can see scars that healed and there's no fur growing there.

Like her face, Karai's body is pleasant to the eye. Her figure is slender but very curvy. She has the same tattoos as Hikage, but hers are on the right instead of the left. She exercises as often as possible so she has a thin waist and wide hips. She has the average amount of muscle on her arms and legs.

Now the clothes. All are form fitting.

She wears a low cut and showy crop top which is ripped in some places. It has a snake pattern in black and white.

She has gloved bracers reinforced with enchanted metal, from the middle of her arms down to her hands. They are used to block melee attacks. She wears her Mega Bracelet on her right arm.

For pants she wears jeans with a snake pattern, which are ripped in some places. From the knee down, a grid of leather straps reinforced with enchanted metal protects her legs and acts like leg bracers for blocking attacks similar to her arm bracers. The jeans cover what needs to be covered.

She doesn't wear shoes, finding her own feet good enough for walking, and this way it's easier to extend her claws. If the landscape is particularly dangerous, she enchants the soles of her feet with defensive magic to protect them.

The colors change from day to day, but the outfit really doesn't.

Personality: Karai pretends to have emotions, but doesn't really have any anymore. Her personality boils down to "I don't care" unless money is involved. She pretends to be nice to others if that's part of the job she's on, but really she doesn't care for anything or anybody. In reality she only cares about what it would do for her bottom line. If you want her to feel for you, show her money. Otherwise the REAL Karai is unemotional and uncaring. If she goes on an infiltration mission or just needs to break in and charm people, she can act like a normal person and play a role. She's an extremely talented actor, and those who know her only think they know her for as long as she needs to act that way to do what she needs to do. She can pretend to have any personality or pretend to feel any emotion she needs to in order to complete her mission. Those who really know her know that she uses her acting talent all the time to fit in and not creep people out, and that many things she says to others are lies. She can fabricate intricate back stories as alibis on the drop of a pin. Of course people who know this are either no longer alive, are former/current employers, or are Hanzo graduates.

When around team members she usually isn't acting, lying, or pretending, and depending on if they were creeped out by her lack of emotions and feeling might be acting normal for them to not be creeped out. It's still just an act though.

Under her facade of not caring about anything is a very damaged person who was taught to be an unfeeling machine since the early teens. She would like nothing else than to learn to feel something again and care about people, but knows it would compromise her job integrity. For now, she doesn't attach to anybody except fellow Hanzo graduates. Everybody else is probably just going to end up a corpse anyway, so why get attached to the walking dead? Maybe this will change when order is restored.

Background: Karai came from pretty humble and normal beginnings. She was born to pretty average parents from Ekruteak in Johto. She went to a regular school until grade 5 when she was 11 years old. No major events, just a happy childhood. Her life changed when she was to attend high school. Her parents revealed the family legacy: They were members of a secret line of shinobi and everybody in the family attended Hanzo Academy. She was enrolled for next year.

On the surface, Hanzo was a normal school. A combination of American style High School and College, students would have classes and learn like other schools. But the day was much longer and school didn't let out until 8pm. When she graduated the High School portion of the Academy, she went on to major in Experimental Engineering. She proved quite smart, capable of designing and understanding various Magitek.

Why did school end so late? After normal classes let out at 3pm, students were trained to be shinobi for hire. This part of the school wasn't open to the public, and the only ones who knew about it were the students and faculty. From 6th grade onward, Karai was conditioned to feel nothing for anybody. To complete the job no matter the odds, consequences, laws, or rules in place. A specialist doesn't care and doesn't get attached. Only the pay motivates them to complete their mission and keep trying.

Spoiler:

At age 11 when she was in 5th grade her teenage development picked up extremely. Like many teenagers, she hated these almost continuous changes. Finally at age 14 in 8th grade she started feeling extreme back pain. To the point that pills didn't help kill the pain and her spine actually started to get damaged. Her doctor told her that either she would get surgery to fix it or she would soon not be able to use her legs because her spine would literally snap in two from the weight being put on it. By this time she had resolved to love her body and wouldn't change it. She needed alternatives, and Madame Hanzo was glad to oblige. The descendant of the founder and principal of the Academy had some very good connections. While Hanzo was legally funded by the Johto government, the after-hours programs needed outside funding because they weren't really all that legal. In return for their funding the partners received graduates to work for them, and it was a very good deal. Most of the funding partners were military, but a couple were less than legal. She contacted one of the big funding partners for the school named Mr. Silverfield and explained the problem: An extremely talented student needed to have her spine repaired. Silverfield agreed to fund the project in return for Karai and 4 others joining up with his organization upon graduation. Karai had no choice but to agree if she was to continue living the life she had gotten used to.

After several days in bed a package arrived at the school with a new form of metal. Well, sort of new. It was the rare metal Magitanium mixed with other chemicals and elements. It was grafted to her spine under the skin. The graft was enchanted to be non conducting and non magnetic. It was also made completely invisible to x-rays and would look like it's not there. Metal detectors didn't notice it either. But she had to take pain killers for life and while it was made to function with her spine and she could bend down it would take a couple of years for the bones to completely mix with the graft. Until then she had to be careful to not hurt herself and was carefully monitored. Working for Mr. Silverfield pay for her painkillers and expenses.

Over the years Karai was trained in the use of all forms of martial arts, various spells, agility, stealth, infiltration, melee weapons, and army weapons. This means she knows many ways to take down an opponent bigger than herself and doesn't need to expend energy fighting them. She can wield anything from a wooden stick to a Magitek missile launcher, assuming she could carry said weapon around. She was also trained to drive most enchanted vehicles. She was also taught telepathy to be able to speak to Pokémon directly, developing a strong connection to the team she trained while in school. She learned to give all her commands telepathically.

A mastery of shapeshifting, vocal manipulation, and alibi fabrication allowed her to be anyone in any location. Though not an expert at information gathering, she could easily research a target and ask people for information. She could be right next to her target but they wouldn't know it until their head was separated from their body or they were incinerated and it was way too late. The perfect multifaceted ninja assassin that doesn't ask questions. Or so she was taught. In private, Karai had been losing her sanity.

Trigger Warning for Self-Inflicted Injuries

Spoiler:

As her training was rigorous, she resorted to extreme methods to make sure she could still feel pain, including self harm. She needed to feel something, anything, to make sure she was still alive. The training taught her much, but it also came at a great cost. Did she lose her soul? Her humanity? Was she like the Magitek she designed in the college years? She had to do this to herself to make sure she was still alive and could feel things, even if it was just pain.

Eventually it was time for graduation and fulfilling her obligation to Silverfield. Soon after the Night of Bloodfall Hanzo Academy was annihilated in a staged arson on an off day and rebuilt in Castelia City in Unova, closer to Silverfield's location. No trace of the school was left in the original location and no leads were ever found in the investigation. All students and faculty were evacuated and are now Unova citizens, with the regular school part continuing the run off government funds as a legal school and the shinobi part being funded by funding partners. As before, the school hides in plain sight, looking like a completely normal school. Though Karai has had a couple of employers and gone on missions as training during school, Phoenix Battalion is her first longterm employment. She joined relatively recently, but got acquainted with the high profile members rather quickly.

Pokémon: Blaziken (F), Raichu (M), Lapras (F), Hydreigon (M), Gardevoir (F), Venusaur (M)

Other: Travels with a squad of four other Hanzo graduates. Default weapons are her racial claws, elemental finger bullets, and a pair of katana that are actually Psychic constructs. She can materialize them from thin air and float them around in addition to holding them. She has her PCCs in her pockets or a backpack if she's already carrying too much. She and her squad each carry very well enchanted Mirrors that keeps them connected to the important things and entertained as needed.

Dan Zembrovski the Mechari is the tallest of the group, but thin as a branch. A regular brainiac in how Magitek works. The resident Magitek expert, he could reverse engineer anything given enough time.

Amanda Highborn the Chua Rabbit is a Magitek weapon expert. Her last name is ironic because she's actually pretty short. Nobody could shoot like her, and she often competes with Karai on who's better at range. Though she's better at long distance shots, Karai lets her win on everything else to make her feel better. She's often polishing her enchanted sniper rifle, which she calls Flashy.

The mysterious Granok man named Scar never really told anybody his real name. Even at the Academy, he said the only one who knew his real name was Madame Hanzo. If anybody else knew it, they weren't telling. Scar was the muscle and could bench about 500 pounds or carry it around. He gives some Fighting types a run for their money, and Karai as well. While not as tall as Dan, Scar's physically the strongest of the five. Whether he uses steroid chemicals or just works out when nobody is looking is unknown.

Anna Lang the Angel is the medic. A regular wiz at healing spells, chemicals, and how the body works, this medical ninja keeps the squad going when they would otherwise be taken out of the fight.

NOTE: Karai might be better against NPCs, and I have no idea how she would operate in a PVP scenario.
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Name: Renita Myrian
Gender: Female
Species: Mechari
Age: Extremely old and doesn't remember exactly. A couple of hundred years old at the bare minimum.
Team: Phoenix Battalion
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