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Post by Dagomis February 21st 2009, 7:21 pm

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Name: Yuko Amaya
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Race: Vampire
Alliance: Sentou Gakuin

Homeland: Yuko was born in a foreign land, outside the boundaries of Sentou Gakuin. Though she spent her entire childhood there, she has truly disowned this place as her homeland forgetting what it is like there, who might live their, or what the land even looks like. She has truly banished from her mind, and now considers Corte Pais to be her new homeland. Corte Pais is the place where she was reborn as a vampire where she left behind everything human behind her for a better life. But though she declares Corte Pais to be her homeland she does not spend much time there, she spends the majority of her time on the Sentou Gakuin campus or with her master in the house that they share, either in her room, the living room, the dining room, or the training room. Her locations are very deliberate and planned, seeming to never be anywhere without lack of knowledge of how or why she is there.

Physical Description[Appearance]: Yuko is a young girl and appears as such. Everything about her speaks of youth, innocence and purity. Her entire being is incredibly misleading. She has long brown hair tied into ponytails, which go from the top of her head to shoulder height, with four surgical style diamond knives, created for her, to keep them suspended. Her eyes are big, deep and clear blue. Her skin is mooth and glowing. Yuko is generally dressed in a white short sleeve shirt, black mini skirt, black buckled boots, matching black, white laced, arm band on her left arm, stocking, and burgundy gold-studded belt with cross charm. Her height is that of a normal girl her age, having been a normal girl before being reborn. She is a very beautiful girl, which brings about questions as to why she does not have many friends, and speaks against why is spends majority of her time with Dagomis. She, also, wears her two weapons on her person at all times. These include a katana sheath on her right side connected to her belt, and two dual holsters on her left and right side connected to the waistline of her skirt. There are positioned for easy access in battle, training or in heat of the moment.
Spoiler:

Ranking:
Tsurabi

Personality: Yuko is a clear-thinking, goal oriented person. She is a happy person open to new things and willing to try anything at least once. Though she is slightly calmer when she is in battle or with her master in a serious and tense situation. Her complete devotion and loyalty are to her master, who in her eyes is a savior having saved her from her former life of despair, and pulling her from death itself. And as part of being devoted to her master, she is also devoted to whatever side he may choose to be apart of at the moment may it be Sentou Gakuin, Suzaku, or any other side. Her entire personality is a very open one, which seems to blend and converge with that of anyone she chooses to be around. Whenever she feels it okay, she has no problem depending on another, though she is very far from needing to.

Warrior Class: Swordsman; Gunner
-Sub-Class: Assassin; Blaster

Elemental Affinity: Gravity; Earth

History/Background Story: Yuko was born, a normal human, in a large kingdom town far away from Sentou Gakuin. As she grew up, she had a peaceful life, knowing nothing of Sentou Gakuin, Suzaku, or some of the inhabiting creatures such as demons, vampires, angels, aliens, artificial lifeforms and other such things. This continued until she reached the age of 14, an age where life would change for her. This was the age where she would meet the evil knight, Dice. A strong and fearsome man under the table of the king of the land of Yuko's origin. During Yuko's 14th year, he lead a successful coup d'etat and claimed the throne for himself, before quickly making the kingdom a dictatorship and putting to death many people with his own hands. Yuko barely escaped with only staying alive because of Dice's lechery. Her life was that of torment and despair. She was repeatedly raped over and over again at the bequest of Dice until she was mentally broken. This carried for years until Dice deicded to leave the kingdom in the hands of one of his subordinates. He began travels, taking along with him over 100 warriors, males and females, and Yuko. They traveled atacking and conquering many places, repeating the same process as with Yuko's land. His thirst for blood was unquenchable; for every town enetered more and more blood was shed. Both innocents and non-innocents were killed in the journey for your blood, Yuko responsible for one entire town at Dice's threats and orders. A deed, which left her scared and crying every night. She could no longer sleep have heard the screams of the innocents killed everytime her eyes were closed. Her life became nothing but torment during day and night, by innocent and sullied. But this all came to an end on a night spent in Corte Pais.

She had come here with Dice and his army to rest on the way to try and conquer the school, Sentou Gakuin. They made a quick stop in a bar for drinks and food, a bar who was famous for their ttitude on secrecy of plans and names. The night was festive for everyone, except Yuko, until a warrior walked in and challenged Dice. Dice accepted the challenge and delighted in the chance to kill a child. His cockiness was his unduing as the child revealed himself to be a bloodthirsty vampire. He tore apart Dice and his five generals before drinking from Yuko herself. In her death, she was plunged into a world of greater despair and suprise. A world where she was instantly taking to a castle, a castle where the met the god of vampires, Militis. He told her of a new opportunity before sending her to her death in a river of souls. She bravely fought back the souls that wanted to drag her under, she fought for her eternal disposition not wanting to face the same fate as them, not wanting to spend her enternity in pain like the souls that surrounded her. She fought until she unconsciously emitted a ring of energy, which obliterated the souls saving both herself and them from an eternity of anguish. She grew new wings and flew toward the castle and room where she had initially met the vampire god. He told her of the evolution that she had gone through, having been part of the reason for her arrival, and then sent her from his domain. She fought her way back into the room, from which she had been removed, in order to confront the vampire god. Thwarted and having a threat placed on her, she jumped to her eternal damnation at the sea of souls below.


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Post by Dagomis March 1st 2009, 1:53 am

RPing Sample: A new area arose, an area covered in fire, and corpses. Hundreds of corpses lined elegantly as if forming a path or an arrow too long to even seen the point, though where it might point to was very much prominent view. It was a grand castle, glorious in its squalor. A castle adorned with many tall towers and draperies adorned with a sign of regality and divinity, a golden lion having powerful wings upon its back. A girl was standing in front of the line of bodies staring at the castle, as if expecting it to move or disappear in some way. She, then, began to move as if pulled toward the castle. Though as she looked down to see what might be pulling her noticed herself off of the ground, hovering over the path of bodies. She looked up to see an angel holding up her nude body. The angel was different though, it looked like a normal human, but was wearing all black: black shirt, black pants, black boots, black hair, black jacket, black angelic wings, and black sword in a black sheath and to top it all off, a black tear-shaped tattoo appeared on the left cheek as if truly cried by this angel. Yuko was suprised by the image of her surroundings, but found herself to be incredibly calm in the arms of this angel. All she could do was focus on the fast approaching castle, and the window in which the angel flew. He dropped the girl onto a stone floor in a gallant hall before flying out of the room to possibly repeat the same process with another person. The girl stared forward to find herself looking at a new person, a king of sorts. He was adorned in the normal kingly apparel, a crown, a cape, and other objects identified with a king. He seemed young to be a king and truly young to be anything in this castle other than maybe a prince or servant's apprentice. Though his eyes held some ferocity, creating a familiar feeling like that of what she had felt before she had been bitten when the pendant the boy was wearing made contact with her. His voice matched his outward appearance, but held a strange power to it. It addressed her in a respectful manner as it pointed out her surroundings. "Welcome, young miss, you must be here from the same incident as these five." A young finger appeared out the shadows that hid part of the boy's body, it pointed to bodies in the corner. Bodies familiar to her, the bodies of Dice and his flunkies, the bodies that had been just drained of all blood. She felt a sense of satisfaction at the image, but fear that this might befall her now. She looked in horror at the figure from the shadows as he emerged to be at the same age as her. He looked very much like the being that had bitten her, but kind of different: his hair was shorter, and his right eyes was covered in a headband, showing that at some point he had been a ninja. He helped for the creation of a friendly atmosphere, though the girl was still afraid that she would end up like Dice. The boy looked at her and spoke once more, "I am the Vampire god, Militis. But, do not worry, you were sent here for one reason and one reason only and that is to meet me. You were sent here by the vampire Dagomis to give you a new life, a life without these men and their oppressive regime, a life without any sins. That is if you want it." He smiled and waited for the answer. The girl did not answer not truly understanding what was happening, she merely nodded her head. The person that addressed himself as Militis walked closer to the girl as she took a step back, the pattern continued until
the the girl was in front of a window without anywhere else to go. The fear was extremely present in her eyes as the boy rose his hand. He tapped the girl's chest where her heart was with his right index finger.

The girl felt a rush of air blow past her, as if she was being pulled at high speeds though she was completely stationary. A smile formed on the face of the boy standing in front of her, but he instantly began to fade from view. As he began to fade, he spoke one word "Adieu." Her heart began to beat again, before speeding up at an alarming rate. She was pulled from her spot through the window and found herself flying toward a river of dead soul's, like the River Styx. The souls were screaming and writhing trying to find a way out of their eternal torment. The invisible hand pulling the girl dropped the girl into the river. She splashed and slammed the water trying to stay afloat, trying to stop from submerging and reaching the same fate as the other souls. The souls reached up tried to drag her down, as they screamed in her ears and trying to petrify her through her own fear. She resisted their
pulls trying to keep her fate from coming into connection with theirs; as she writhed her body began to become lighter and lighter beginning to glow, illuminating the entire river and scattering the souls not
already clinging to her. The glow quickly reached a climax and spread from her body in a ring from her midsection. It obliterated the souls clinging to her, returning her to a steady tread to stay above the
surface. But as she continued to tread water, she felt herself lift from the river. She looked up trying to find the angel from before but found nothing, she looked to her left and right trying to find some
other means for this, now finding a set of wings extending from her back keeping her in the air and unleashing a torrent of air with every might flap. She found herself flying back toward the castle from which she had been thrown to a gruesome fate. The castle window came into view and disappeared as she entered through it. She found herself staring Militis in the face once again, folding and retracting her
wings. Militis smiled and stood up from his throne. He appeared into view totally moving from the shadow speaking to the girl, "Now, Miss Yuko, you may find that you have some new features to yourself. You have elongated fangs, wings, and some new access to a few of the elements that surround you. You are now under my domain and shall remain as such until your death, in layman's terms, you are now a
vampire."
He turned his back on the girl and signaled for her to leave his throne room. She had no choice as to the matter before she could do anything, the winged man from before appeared in the room
ready to protect this god that had put her eternal soul in peril. Yuko could do nothing now, she jumped out of the window intending to jump into the river. Her life flashed before her eyes as she did, she
remembered up to the point where she had been sent to this place by that figure in Corte Pais. She thought of what he did, but also what Militis had said. He had said that what had happened to her was to
bring about a new life for her. The 'water' was fast approaching for Yuko, and she had readied herself to receive the eternal pain. She closed as her as she was about a foot above the surface, she felt nothing now and knew nothing now.

The girl felt a rush of air blow past her, as if she was being pulled at high speeds though she was
completely stationary. A smile formed on the face of the boy standing in front of her, but he instantly began to fade from view. As he began to fade, he spoke one word "Adieu." Her heart began to beat again, before speeding up at an alarming rate. She was pulled from her spot through the window and found herself flying toward a river of dead soul's, like the River Styx. The souls were screaming and writhing trying to find a way out of their eternal torment. The invisible hand pulling the girl dropped the girl into the river. She splashed and slammed the water trying to stay afloat, trying to stop from submerging and reaching the same fate as the other souls. The souls reached up tried to drag her down, as they screamed in her ears and trying to petrify her through her own fear. She resisted their pulls trying to keep her fate from coming into connection with theirs; as she writhed her body began to become lighter and lighter beginning to glow, illuminating the entire river and scattering the souls not
already clinging to her. The glow quickly reached a climax and spread from her body in a ring from her midsection. It obliterated the souls clinging to her, returning her to a steady tread to stay above the
surface. But as she continued to tread water, she felt herself lift from the river. She looked up trying to find the angel from before but found nothing, she looked to her left and right trying to find some other
means for this, now finding a set of wings extending from her back keeping her in the air and unleashing a torrent of air with every mighty flap. She found herself flying back toward the castle from which she
had been thrown to a gruesome fate. The castle window came into view and disappeared as she entered through it. She found herself staring Militis in the face once again, folding and retracting her wings.
Militis smiled and stood up from his throne. He appeared into view totally moving from the shadow speaking to the girl, "Now, Miss Yuko, you may find that you have some new features to yourself. You have elongated fangs, wings, and some new access to a few of the elements that surround you. You are now under my domain and shall remain as such until your death, in layman's terms, you are now avampire." He turned his back on the girl and signaled for her to leave his throne room. She had no choice as to the matter before she could do anything, the winged man from before appeared in the room ready to protect this god that had put her eternal soul in peril. Yuko could do nothing now, she jumped out of the window intending to jump into the river. Her life flashed before her eyes as she did, she remembered up to the point where she had been sent to this place by that figure in Corte Pais. She thought of what he did, but also what Militis had said. He had said that what had happened to her was to bring about a new life for her. The 'water' was fast approaching for Yuko, and she had readied
herself to receive the eternal pain. She closed as her as she was about a foot above the surface, she felt nothing now and knew nothing now.

The screams became louder and louder, as Yuko
came closer to the surface of the river. The souls were eager to accept
her and bring her in to share in their anguish. They reached their
hands out to force her to join, giving her no time to change her mind
or think about her decision. As hands clasped around her body, Yuko
felt a sense of warmth go over her. The screams stopped and she opened
her eyes to see her new eternal surroundings. She looked to her left
and right to find the same scene as before she went under. Her mind
writhed, trying to find the reasoning as to why she felt nothing but
pleasure after submerging into the depths of peril. Finding no answer
in her mind, she looked downward finding the river below her. It
puzzled her even more to have not submerged, having felt the hands, but
not been pulled in. It came to a point that she could no longer think
of the subject, she found no justification in her surroundings or in
her mind. Each thought of it made for an even more baffling question
until the entire subject caused her mind to go blank. She strained to
try and keep the thoughts in her mind, to try and solve this great
riddle that stood in front of her. Her mind went blank and she became
incredibly weak, the strain of her desire to know outweighed by the
weight of the actual number and mass of the questions. The strain built
upon itself, growing and filling her driving the strength from her
making its way. "Don't do that." The voice was familiar, though now with an essence of friendliness and playfulness. "I already told you that my brother gave you a new life for a reason. Don't waste a life without Dice ... I believe it is."
The girl's eyes exploded in panic when she heard the name of her
tormenter. She tried to escape the current situation, but found herself
unable to get out of the hands still holding onto her. The hands placed
her down upon the surface of the river, filling her with the fear that
she might end up falling in or being pulled in. The fear quickly
subsided as she realized that she was staying above the surface. Her
mind cleared as she looked up to see the person from which the voice
came from. It was the vampire god, the one who had just a few minutes
ago told her to leave his sight. This took the place of the early
questions, but she then dismissed it finding comfort in believing the
final sentence of the man. A new life without Dice was euphoria to her,
supplemented by the fact that she was free to do anything she wanted in
the world she now experienced. "What do you mean?
Your brother? New life?" Her questions came out deliberate and rude,
but she didn't care. She couldn't think of anything that fit with the
sentence of the boy standing in front of her. [color=#800000]"My
brother is the vampire that bit you, that sent you here to be reborn
under me. He saw your plight and wished to help you, so he thought he
would give a chance at a new life to be lived as so chosen."

Militis smiled to accompany his statment, though the girl did not focus
on him rather focusing on the statement. It made sense to her, but at
the same time did not. She didn't understand why she was killed to be
provided a new life, but then also understood that it proved her with a
totally new life rather than a restart. A happiness crept over her as
she realized the reasoning behind the actions of the man, who had
massacred Dice and his 'knights'. She was grateful to the boy, but was
not sure how to repay him in this state. Looking up at the god before
her, she started to ask a question but was cut short when she felt a
great rush of power pulling her down. Militis brought his right hand to
head height and snapped his fingers, the girl was completely submerged
and he diappeared from the spot. The last thing Yuko could see was that
of the god smiling as she was rushed into the water, terrified and even
unable to scream from the sheer spontaneity of the movement.
Dagomis
Dagomis
Ryoushi

Male
Number of posts : 669
Age : 30

The BattleField
Health Points:
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue11100/11100Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (11100/11100)
Tsukara-Skill Points:
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue8350/8350Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (8350/8350)
Experience Points :
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue0/100Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (0/100)

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Post by Dagomis March 7th 2009, 7:02 pm

Not really finished, but it should be long enough for approval. So I am putting it forward for approval or denial.
Dagomis
Dagomis
Ryoushi

Male
Number of posts : 669
Age : 30

The BattleField
Health Points:
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue11100/11100Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (11100/11100)
Tsukara-Skill Points:
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue8350/8350Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (8350/8350)
Experience Points :
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue0/100Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (0/100)

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Post by Zura March 7th 2009, 7:22 pm

From my point of view, you're one line short of homeland, physical description and personality but due to your massive background story and RPing sample I'll approve it. Approved!!
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Number of posts : 364
Age : 31

The BattleField
Health Points:
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue4150/4150Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (4150/4150)
Tsukara-Skill Points:
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue4200/4200Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (4200/4200)
Experience Points :
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue36/100Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (36/100)

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Post by Dagomis March 7th 2009, 7:28 pm

Thanks.
Dagomis
Dagomis
Ryoushi

Male
Number of posts : 669
Age : 30

The BattleField
Health Points:
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue11100/11100Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (11100/11100)
Tsukara-Skill Points:
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue8350/8350Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (8350/8350)
Experience Points :
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue0/100Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (0/100)

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Post by Dagomis March 8th 2009, 9:49 pm

Edited.
Dagomis
Dagomis
Ryoushi

Male
Number of posts : 669
Age : 30

The BattleField
Health Points:
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue11100/11100Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (11100/11100)
Tsukara-Skill Points:
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue8350/8350Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (8350/8350)
Experience Points :
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue0/100Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (0/100)

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Post by Jisenki March 10th 2009, 7:34 pm

Approved.
Jisenki
Jisenki
Head Warrior
Head Warrior

Male
Number of posts : 1722
Age : 31
Location : Down the path of life
Occupation : The guy with the sword
Interests : Martial Arts, Kung-fu, Swordsmanship

The BattleField
Health Points:
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue6400/6400Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (6400/6400)
Tsukara-Skill Points:
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue4400/4400Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (4400/4400)
Experience Points :
Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Left_bar_bleue63/100Yuko Amaya [Tsurabi] Empty_bar_bleue  (63/100)

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