Haeru Hattori [Approved || 2-4]

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» Name: Haeru Hattori
» Titles: N/A
» Race: Human/Demon
» Age: 20
» Gender: Male
» Affiliation/Rank: None

» Appearance Written: Haeru is of average stature, standing at 5'10” tall. His hair and eyes are both a strikingly fiery shade of red, the former kept in wavy medium length spikes with one much longer lock pulled back into a thin ponytail. Thin but not especially muscular, he hasn't had a very physically demanding life. His features aren't stereotypically macho but neither are they feminine or even androgynous. Most people would probably agree that he's fairly pleasant to look at. Because of exposure to the Danava inside of him from infancy, the overwhelming spiritual energy inside him eventually turned him into something much closer to demon than human. The pair of unusually sharp canines and the curved blue-black horns he possesses are a testament to that, the right horn jutting to the side while the left sits pointed towards the sky. Not fond of the reactions he gets in public to to his demonic looks, Haeru eventually learned to use his power to alter his appearance into something more normal for going out in public. While altered in this way his fiery hair and eyes become a nondescript black and his horns are completely hidden away.

He has a fairly decadent sense of style that seems to sit in contrast to his personality, often opting to wear well known and expensive name brands. His clothing choices are, subconsciously, more extravagant than the norm and he comes across as a very metrosexual man with expensive taste. Always seen in a well-tailored shirt and pants combo, his looks vary from peacock-like displays of patterns to razor-sharp simple elegance. No matter what his clothes are always pristine and well managed from the lack of a single wrinkle in his shirts to his obsessively shined and maintained shoes.

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» Personality:Haeru is something of an puzzler to those who don't know him well which is more or less everyone. His base nature as a result of the spirit that resulted in him being a Ziamichi causes him to act out in ways that he himself isn't consciously aware is at odds with other aspects of his personality. In general he's rather shy and doesn't go out of his way to be social, but isn't rude or antisocial per se. In other words he's the guy who will apologize kindly if you bump into him regardless of who's at fault but then avoids eye contact and hurries on. He wrestles with a great deal of inner conflict because of the prodding of his other half to give in to his base desires. Sometimes though, he doesn't even realize the ways that his resident guest affects him. The perfect example is his borderline need to wear flashy and expensive name brands while being nothing of a snob at heart. His passenger's instincts overpower him subconsciously in strange ways leaving him none the wiser.

Being stuck with a spirit of hedonism causes him to unthinkingly gravitate towards carnal pleasures even when his personality is fairly meek. He himself doesn't understand why he's so drawn to fancy clothes, fine colognes, the arts, alcohol, and even sexual encounters which can lead to some rather shocked people when they see just how deep the rabbit hole goes for someone who is apparently so timid on the exterior. The sheer desperation with which he is driven to pursue such things at times goes beyond people's assumptions that his “repressed” personality is at fault. Indeed when his “other half” rears its head he can be quite forward.

His life experiences have taught him how to fake a range of emotions from happiness to interest very well, and his first instinct at times is to react in the way he senses a person would like him to and keep his feelings guarded close to his chest. For this reason he can tend to be manipulative without actively attempting to be. He more often than not doesn't even consciously realize he's doing it and doesn't mean ill but sharp minds can pick it up and may consider him a brownoser at best. That's not to say he never does it on purpose though, as the skill is his bread and butter in his line of work. He's exceedingly charming when it's called for and when his “other half” starts leading the conversation he can ooze persuasion like poisoned honey. Like a siren in disguise, he's entirely unassuming until he gets in a mood where his 'needs' catch up with him. Despite that aspect of his personality he's typically a sweet guy with genuine empathy for those around him unless of course he's working, in which case all bets are off. There is, however, the part of him that remains bitter at being bullied growing up, penniless and essentially helpless until he took his own fate into his hands.
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» History: Haeru's history really starts with his conception. Nadare Hattori, a high-class escort working in a major city outlying Karakura town found one day that she was the exception to the 99.9% effectiveness of the contraceptive pills she was taking. She could, of course, have simply ended his fledgling life but something inside of her was moved with compassion for the unborn child within her and so she decided to carry her newly conceived child to term. There was no way to know exactly who the father was but with her clientele being of the upper-crust sort all it took was a couple of quietly written letters with an offer to not seek a paternity test for a number of sizable checks to come into her possession. With their financial needs secured, the expectant mother spent her days preparing for the mysterious joy of parenthood to come.

Almost eight months into her pregnancy she was involved in a serious traffic accident while en route to a routine exam. In the end she pulled through just fine but in the coming days a sense of dread started to chill her veins. Where she had once felt kicks and movement, the life inside of her now felt entirely absent. Scheduling an emergency exam, the doctor presented the woman with the news she'd been dreading: her child was dead. Stricken with grief Nadare turned to the supernatural sects in her town who, moved with compassion, provided her with the materials to perform a ritual of great power. In the end the one who responded to the call was none other than one of the “Old Ones” the Danava of Hedonism, a spirit who egotistically considered himself the patron god of Nadare's former profession and liked to dabble in the affairs of mortals as a form of entertainment. A pact was sealed; the spirit would use his Demon Magic to infuse the child with life. As payment he would take somebody else's, namely Nadare's. She would be able to deliver her child and would then give up her soul for the Danava to enjoy as he wished.

The spirit's pride was his undoing in the end. Rather than animate the dead child with an “artificial” soul made of his magic, his pledge was to truly raise it to life. The only means of doing so was the most forbidden of Demon Magic which the Danava assumed he could use with his great power. The cost of the spell was, as predictably as it was ironic, much greater than the spirit had anticipated: even all of his spiritual energy wasn't enough and in the end the cost was his life; The Danava was quite literally forced to provide himself as the sacrifice. Haeru's spirit plucked back from the soul cycle, the unborn child's tiny heart began to beat once more as the magic carried the Danava's shattered soul into the tiny human. Sacrificed by the magic the old Danava faded and in his place was an entirely new soul. Of course a Danava can never truly die and so it took on a new existence as the spirit bound within the mortal shell of the baby yet to be born, an infant consciousness itself.

Nadare couldn't have understood what it all meant and the time swiftly came for her to deliver her baby boy. As soon as her labor was complete, the woman passed on the operating table. The time to hold her end of the pact had come and while the spirit she had promised her soul to had recently undergone reincarnation it did indeed still exist along with her promise. She was able to cling to life long enough to name her son before her inevitable end came upon her. Unknowingly, the mewling newborn spirit inside of Haeru devoured the soul of the mother who brought him into the world, taking it on as a part of him though not a conscious one. With no family to speak, Haeru was placed in an orphanage until the day he was old enough to inherit what his mother had left behind.

His early life was uneventful enough though odd things had a tendency of happening around him. The unkind treatment his obviously inhuman looks bought him from his fellow humans was bearable and he got through it by being as polite as he could. Well, that and him always talking quietly to an invisible friend he vehemently defended as real. Of course when he went through puberty his “other half” began to manifest in more external ways. Chastised by his caretakers for his fixation on earthly delights, they were at once mystified at how obsessed Haeru was with art, music, and aesthetic as well as horrified that he already seemed determined to drink and worse. (Though he found out early that his insatiable cravings weren't helped by the fact that most substances had little of their intended effects on him, requiring ten times the usual amount or more.) How such a usually quiet child could hold such disturbing depths was beyond them. (Ironically they weren't too far off to consider him a demon child.) It was a source of constant stress to his caretakers how a boy so sweet and charming could be have such a “dark” side underneath it all; the clearly inhuman boy had even begun to grow horns.

With the beginnings of his physical maturity came an awakening of the strong spiritual energy that lived within him. Now a glowing dot on the radar so to speak he started to come under harassment from spiritual forces drawn to him like a moth to flame. With no choice but learn basic self defense, at the age of thirteen Haeru very quickly figured out that he and his inner companion had some rather unusual abilities. Inevitably the orphanage itself was attacked resulting in a large number of injuries and deaths. Guilt stricken, Haeru and his double used the Atma Vatou they had first manifested not too long before (what they would later come to know as Aiyoku) to treat the injuries they could. While he was able to treat their wounds the understandably frightened social workers at the orphanage more or less threw him out and burnt his records so that as far as anyone was concerned he'd never existed.

Faced with the unfriendly reality of a harsh world he had plenty of time to learn how to use his strange powers for his own gain; After all it was that or die. Honing his strange ability to change his own appearance to fit in among his human peers as well as his ability to diminish his spiritual presence so he wouldn't be constantly attacked, he continued to practice with his other powers as well. It was about the time when he was fifteen that he, with persistent prompting from his other, ended up seeking payment for a particular activity he found himself unintentionally enslaved to anyway. Not that he'd ever really looked down on the fact that there were people who routinely accepted payment in return for such company since he had to survive how he could. It wasn't long before he found out that he could make a great deal more money that way than by petty thievery and odd jobs. Whether or not he knew it he was his mother's son.

At the age of eighteen he took an official job at an escort agency and settled into adult life, using his powers to secure a web of well connected people that were more or less addicted to him. Said connections with rather respected people were used to reverse the theft of his identity by the scared orphanage workers all those years ago. Now being able to access his inheritance meant that he could move into the condo his mother had left him as well as inherit the rather lofty sums of money that she had never received the opportunity to spend. Combined with his rather respectable income from his line of work he continued to live a comfortable life, always naggingly aware that he was only able to comfortably walk down the street while hiding his appearance from his human neighbors and his spiritual pressure from the other forces at large. While his double seemed perfectly happy with a life flitting from one wild party and partner in debauchery to the next there was a part of Haeru that started to get bored and disillusioned, wondering if that was all there was to life; waking a small part of his devilish powers to snare powerless humans, feed off of them in more way than one, then turn around and hide his head in all other parts of his daily life. He knew that he was connected with forces he'd done nothing but run from his entire life and secretly wanted a chance to see what was beyond the veil. He should have been careful what he wished for because eventually he had very little choice in the matter.
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Because of his exposure to his Danava's energies since he was a newborn, Haeru is more demon than human and only continues to shift that direction as time goes on. It's sometimes difficult to determine just where his own awakened spiritual talents stop and Hacchakeru's begin. As such he theoretically possesses all of the demon racial skills and abilities. While he's aware of the fact that he's become a demon, what he doesn't know at the moment is that his burning curiosity about the spiritual world has caused him to develop into a Danava himself.

Natural Abilities

• Unremarkable Aura: Growing up being attacked because your (inner demon's) reiatsu makes you light up on the spiritual radar like a Christmas tree sucks. Being attacked in a different way because your (inner demon's) aura makes people around you give into their desires can also suck in the wrong places and times. Well if you had crazy demon powers you might accidentally develop a way to counteract that too. Haeru can switch this power on and off at will now, and while active it causes his (and Hacchakeru's) reiatsu to appear extremely tiny and uninteresting, apparently not worth investigating or going out of one's way for. (Though it doesn't hide it completely.) It also projects a field around him that subtly nudges creatures around him into not paying him any mind or finding him noteworthy, sliding into the corners of their consciousness and out of their direct perception. It isn't, however, invisibility and doesn't have any effect on situations where Haeru is doing something noticeably out of the ordinary, which is why he combines this ability with his shapechanging powers to remove his demonic features in public as it wouldn't work otherwise. For that reason the only function that this ability serves in combat is to make his reiatsu appear extremely weak.
  
  
• Resonance with Hacchakeru: Because of the extremely powerful magic bonding the pair since birth, Haeru naturally channels a portion of Hacchakeru's reiatsu at all times. The most noticeable side effect of this is the fact that Haeru is now for all intents and purposes a demon. He's also very easily influenced by his other's emotions. The two can switch control over their shared body in the blink of an eye, though Haeru's physical body hasn't yet gotten anywhere near the point where it can handle the full force of Hacchakeru's power for prolonged periods of time. On the other hand, Hareu can manifest almost any of Hacchakeru's powers up to and including his Atma Vatou even if he isn't channeling Hacchakeru's reiatsu or if the spirit is incapacitated for some reason. However if he does so, they're obviously manifested at his own power level instead of Hacchakeru's or some medium of the two. In some cases he doesn't even have control over what he manifests as in the case of Hacchakeru's own natural abilities like his Aura of Hedonism, which actively requires the use of Haeru's Unremarkable Aura to smother.
  
  
• Affinity for Magic: Haeru is of course a completely separate being than Hacchakeru and has his own unique abilities that have surfaced as a result of his transformation into a demon. His own powers have so far manifested as an unusual talent for demon magic, which he picks up unusually fast, can manifest rather quickly, and is more efficient than usual to use for him.

» Origin Name: (No special name)

» Origin Power: Insight; the power to instinctively, fundamentally understand and formulate knowledge of substances, organisms, spiritual forces, universal laws, esoteric truths, etc.

» Origin Abilities: Being the Danava of Insight gives Haeru... well, general insight. He can tell how someone is feeling even if they try to hide it and pretty much always knows when he's being lied to though not necessarily what the truth is. If someone isn't who they appear to be he'll generally pick up on it, or if they're hiding an injury he'll know: that sort of thing. He can detect and analyze reiatsu with all five senses to a degree and is quick to understand the nature of other powers including their strengths, weaknesses, applications, and limitations.


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» Conceptual World: 

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Haeru's conceptional world takes the form of a great and ancient library. It its center is a large sphere that serves as a nexus to Haeru's memories and knowledge. If one were to look out the windows they would see that the library is bulit into an unfathomably large tree whose branches cradle the structure from falling into the sky below while its trunk and roots stretch into an endless abyss above.

» Eternal Partner Name: Genri

» Eternal Partner Appearance:

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» Eternal Partner Personality: Forthright and (typically) honest almost to a fault, Genri calls them as he sees them if asked his opinion with an almost childlike bluntness. He is, surprise, extremely insightful and always keenly aware of everything going on. Mostly quiet unless directly contacted, he spends his time watching and observing without comment. He mostly stays shut up in his home, Haeru's conceptual world and while he can venture out into Hacchakeru's territory he obviously dislikes to and shows strong discomfort for no discernible reason. Occasionally he has a tendency to contradict his usual nature by speaking in riddles but only when extremely esoteric topics like the soul cycle are at hand. When he does, there is something of an insinuation that he's intentionally withholding information but why that is and what exactly he knows that he isn't telling is a mystery. He's hiding something, but why?



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» Atma Vatou Name: Senmon'chishiki

» Atma Vatou Appearance:

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» Atma Vatou Abilities: Being a grimoire, Senmon'chishiki is chock full of arcane knowledge and just about anything you could want to know about the spiritual realms. When he needs information he need only give a mental or verbal command and it will magically flip itself to the page containing the entry he seeks.

• Empowered Magic: Not only does Senmon'chishiki have endless entries on demon magic for Haeru to study that he might not have the opportunity to practice otherwise, but it also contains esoteric secrets about the inner workings of magic itself. By using the knowledge from the grimoire as well as the secret workings explained about individual spells, Haeru can noticeably increase the effectiveness of his spellcasting.
  
• Biography: By sending out a harmless but incredibly fast pulse of reiatsu, Senmon'chishiki can create a page about anyone it touches. The page is almost like an entry from a bestiary, giving the target's name, general powers, relative power level, minor biographical details, etc. Particularly old and or well known spirits will probably already have a page without the need for this technique which will probably include some general lore as well.

» Atma Vatou Name: Yomudai

» Atma Vatou Appearance: Yomudai takes the appearance of a blueish-clear visor-like construct that sits like a pair of glasses over Haeru's eyes. The portions that curl out at the sides of his head actually wrap around his ears ending with a small nub resting over each ear canal. The portions that touch his skin are fused and the Atma Vatou is actually networked directly with his brain.

» Atma Vatou Abilities: Yomudai's ability is to enhance the user's perception in various ways.

• Sana: True seeing. Through Sana, Yomudai is able to accurately sense, distinguish, and analyze heat, reiatsu, and various other energy signatures to allow Haeru to track others even through solid objects or other obstructions. Through analysis, Sana reveals strange or not-immediately-obvious properties to reiatsu or techniques. Depending on the relative skill levels involved, Sana also has an excellent chance of seeing through any type of deception. By analyzing the spiritual fabric of the world around them to find its natural weak points, the user's Kage Chōkyō-shi becomes easier to manipulate with precision.
  
• Kakuremichi: Kakuremichi allows the user to see and calculate vectors of pretty much anything at high speed. This has several uses: First of all it allows the user to more accurately read where attacks will land. Second it both allows the user to better track high speed movement and gives them greater clarity when they themselves are using high speed movement. Third, by combining Sana's ability to see spiritual energy with Kakuremichi's own ability to calculate vectors of ambient particles, Haeru can accurately sense where 'dead spots' of ambient particles are and will be opening. This allows him to encounter less resistance as he moves, leading to high speed movement that is both faster and more efficient.
  
• Tekiouseigyokei: Combining the finer points of Sana and Kakuremichi allows Yomudai's abilities to start to become more adaptive than reactive. This basically amounts to techniques becoming less and less effective each time they're used against him and fighting styles gradually becoming useless if not switched up. For example if someone has used the same energy blast multiple times, Haeru can recognize what the energy looks like being gathered via Sana and then instantly calculate where it's going to land with Kakuremichi. Or for techniques of a different nature Sana may allow him to analyze the makeup of a technique that's been used quite a bit to the point where he now knows how to disrupt it; from there he could potentially use Kakuremichi to accurately guide a much smaller blast to the technique's “weak point” and disburse it. For melee combat there is no exact time limit or easy way to describe when Tekiouseigyokei would kick in and to what degree, but as the fight went on if Haeru wasn't defeated it would become gradually easier for him to dodge and counter his opponent's attacks unless they were able to change their fighting style to something new enough to throw him off. It's worth noting that Tekiouseigyokei works on an instinctual level so it isn't possible for Haeru to retain his adaptive edge for any worthwhile length of time after a battle ends. (Unless they get back up after a couple of posts or whatnot.) It's also worth noting that Tekiouseigyokei adapts to the individual nuances of a person's techniques and that's what makes it effective, so for example Haeru adapting to one person's Cero wouldn't help him against another person's Cero because person two has their own unique nuances that need to be analyzed.
  

• Za Koa's Influence
  
• Knowledge of Environment
  
• Reiatsu Drain
  
• Black Inferno Blast

Demon Abilities

• Kage Chōkyō-shi
  
• Affinity for Hell
  
• Sacrificing Incantation
  
• Curse Effect
  
• Body Manipulation

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» The Spirit's Name: Hacchakeru
» The Spirit's Race: Demon (Danava)
» The Spirit's Gender: Male
» The Spirit's Age: 20 (Or much older depending on how you look at it.)

» The Spirit's Written Appearance:Hacchakeru is in many ways something between a fraternal and identical twin of Haeru. He has the exact base appearance of his human host down to whatever he happens to be wearing that day, with some obvious differences. Most striking are the six pairs of wings he possesses which are as blazingly red as his hair. He also has his own pair of differently shaped curved horns, the right sitting as you would expect while the left curls downward instead of up. More subtle differences exist between the two such as the demon's slightly pointed ears and more clawlike nails but they typically aren't the focus of attention.

» The Spirit's Pictured Appearance:

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» The Spirit's Personality: While Haeru the human is a sweet and timid kind of guy, Hacchakeru is the living embodiment of hedonism. He can't help it, being quite literally what he his. Hacchakeru just wants to spend his days in a haze of sensual pleasures and actively seeks to get others to give into their desires; it's just his nature. He's the one who's responsible for Haeru having such an attachment to anything that pleases the senses and predictably gravitates towards the same things but very much knowingly. Sultry at times and wickedly charming, his manipulations are very much on purpose but not necessarily malicious in nature. He often sees himself as doing people a favor by getting them to indulge themselves.

While excellent at tact when the situation calls for it, Hacchamaru is also very blunt and to the point when he senses it will be effective. Good at sensing what people want, he's quick to make friends and suggest a party or whatnot. While much more assertive than Haeru on the whole he's not stupid and his forward nature only extends so far as he feels some prerogative and proactive behavior is more beneficial than being stuck in indecision. He isn't opposed to proper planning as long as it isn't an excuse to twiddle a person's thumbs. Being a spirit with a very abstract concept he tends to fight more with his wits than with raw power anyway.


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» The Spirit's History: The spirit that goes by the name Hacchakeru at the moment was originally known as Tanraku. Tanraku himself is a very, very old and famous spirit. As long as creatures have had free will they've been seeking sources of enjoyment and pleasure, gods and ordinary beings alike. As such, Tanraku finds his beginnings in some of the earliest ages of creation. Something of an entertainer and celebrity among the highest courts of the demons, it wouldn't be too far off to consider him the spiritual universe's first rock star though that would imply a focus on music which his domain includes but doesn't center around. He coordinated anything and everything that was pleasing to the senses, from the sophisticated to the raunchy, only growing in power as people realized just how... pleasurable pleasure could be. You could say he had it all; rank within the demon hierarchy due to his great age and power as well as the adoration of the demon public. Despite that, or perhaps because of that, he grew a bit bored and started to meddle in the affairs of other races.

Branching out to pull other civilizations into his influence, he was either directly or indirectly responsible for any number of events throughout the history of the races. After all, how many times have we heard the phrase “The devil made me do it”? Styling himself as a sort of patron deity, he even began introducing ways to directly summon either himself or his subordinates. Eventually he started spending more time away from the demon realm than within it. He had, in his mind, transcended the simple concept of demon into more or less a force of nature acting on all worlds, cultures, and nations. Seeking his own pleasure wherever it could be found, it was hard to argue that he truly was the Danava of Hedonism.

Eventually his pride was his undoing as he tried to shatter the laws of the soul cycle for a human woman. Sacrificed to his own spell, he was killed for the first time in all history only to be reincarnated inside of the human baby who's soul he had plucked back from the laws of the universe as the magic bonded them together irreversibly. All memories of his past life gone, Tanraku instinctively took the form of his human host and formed strong ties with him as he didn't know anything else. Even reincarnated he was vaguely aware that he was a spirit of hedonism and retained instinctual memories of how to use his abilities even if they weren't perfect or comparable to what he had been in the peak of his power. Slowly though, little by little flashes of his past life come back to him in small pieces though he doesn't quite know what to make of them.



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Natural Abilities:

• Spiritual Attenuation: Hacchakeru possesses a remarkable talent for causing his spiritual energy to resonate with and attune itself with others. His signature Atma Vatou Aiyoku is centered around this tendency and serves to magnify it.

» Origin Name: Uchoutengai

» Origin Power: Hedonism; the pursuit of things that are pleasurable to the senses.

» Origin Abilities:

• Aura of Hedonism: Hacchakeru's very presence causes those around him within approximately 300 yards to have a nagging desire to give into whatever their desires might be. The extent to which the aura affects them depends a lot of factors including the affected individuals current mental state, typical self-control, and spiritual power relative to Hacchakeru's.
  
  
• Font of Desires: As you might have guessed Hacchakeru feeds off of people experiencing pleasure and is able to become more powerful in their presence. This extends to any kind of pleasure whether it's mental like that of bloodlust or something more physical.
  
  
• Ecstasy: Hacchamaru is able to reinforce and magnify existing feelings of pleasure in others. Additionally, he can induce extreme physical pleasure through physical contact.
  
  
• Schadenfreude: Hacchamaru has the unusual ability to transmute any feelings of physical pain he would inflict on others into pleasure. This naturally works in an interesting combination with his ability to gain strength from other people's pleasure.

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» Conceptual World: Hacchakeru's conceptual world takes the form of a beautiful garden filled with poppies and heavily fragranced flowers. Classical works of art such as statues and fountains are strewn about and all of the plants have an otherworldly sheen that cause them to be breathtaking in indescribable ways. Colorful cushions are laid down at regular intervals surrounding hookahs filled with smoking opium. Every so often there is a stage manned by faceless spirits playing hauntingly beautiful music. All of this is in front of an opulent looking castle who's gate is drawn up and surrounded by a sphere of power preventing entry.


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» Atma Vatou Name: Aiyoku

» Atma Vatou Appearance: Aiyoku takes one of two distinct forms depending on what techniques are being used. The first is a necklace of hundreds of barbed needles that is wrapped around itself many, many times and can unravel to float around him almost like a scarf of bandoleer. The second is when the needles are fused together to form six floating lances to surround him.

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Both forms can be controlled and propelled mentally without him actually having to hold them.

» Atma Vatou Abilities: Aiyoku represents Hedonism involving intercourse and it's powers center around the attunement of reiatsu to various ends.

• Needle Form: While in needle form, Aiyoku can perform several different tasks. When propelled into anything containing reiatsu they immediately penetrate it and dissolve into reiatsu, absorbing themselves inside. What happens from there depends on what exactly the needles absorbed themselves into. If used on an ally, the needles can attune themselves to the target's reiatsu and release their energy into their cells, regenerating wounds they might have incurred. If used directly on a foe, the needles first absorb and attune to the victim's reiatsu. Within a second or two a glowing pustule about the size of a nickel forms as a portion of the victim's spiritual energy is absorbed and used against them and bursts in a miniature explosion. Because of the nature of this attack it damages them opponent physically while robbing them of a small amount of their reiatsu for each needle that makes contact. If the needles contact something along the lines of a barrier made of reiatsu they are especially effective because they suck up a portion of the reiatsu powering it before their miniature explosion that causes further damage.
  
• Lance Form: When Aiyoku's needles are combined into lances they lose their ability to heal allies but gain a couple of neat tricks. The first is instant attunement which allows them to pierce through reiatsu based barriers like butter but without inflicting actual damage on them. An opponent stabbed with a lance will continue to have their reiatsu cannibalized until they remove it, and the accumulated energy can be detonated at any time by a mental command. Their last function is to act as a sort of lightning rod to reiatsu based techniques once per post. The more lances that are able to be interjected into the path of the technique, the more of it they can attune and absorb with the most powerful abilities taking all six lances to absorb. At that point they can be turned on an enemy and detonated as if they had absorbed reiatsu directly form them.

» Atma Vatou Name: Keshi no Tenryuu

» Atma Vatou Appearance: Keshi no Tenryuu takes the form of an ornate opium pipe ending with a dragon head design at the venting end.

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» Atma Vatou Abilities: Keshi no Tenryuu represents represents hedonism involving narcotic substances and its powers center around manipulating smoke to slow, obstruct, and befuddle enemies.

• Opium Haze: Keshi no Tenryuu passively spits a thin veil of grey-white smoke into the air surrounding the user. Breathing the smoke gradually causes feelings of numbness, dizziness, and fatigue that get worse the more they breathe it.
  
• Dreamcatcher: This technique allows the user to spit clouds of grey-black smoke into the environment and form them into various shapes at will. The smoke creates an area inside that is extremely dense, obstructing anything passing through it as if it was passing through extremely deep water or some other very dense liquid. It can be used to ensnare and harass enemies, partially block attacks, or even simply obscure areas from view. If trapped in the smoke for any period of time, a creature starts to be affected by the effects of Opium Haze even if they aren't breathing.
  
• Deepest Sleep: If an opponent is snared by the effects of Dreamcatcher or otherwise unable to move, the Atma Vatou can move on into a more decisive stage where the ambient smoke is pooled around the victim and condensed into a pitch black sphere. This functions like a Bakudo and is considerably harder to escape from once trapped. Inside the victim is immobilized by immense pressure while the effects of Opium Haze quickly send them into a dreamless sleep. The speed at which they drift off depends on a few factors. If the one caught is much weaker than Hacchakeu to start with or severely weakened at the time they're caught it could take as little as one post. Foes of more even power levels and those with fight still in them might take 2-3 posts, while foes who are noticeably stronger than Hacchakeru might take 4 posts or more, potentially never falling asleep at all.

• Za Koa's Influence
  
• Knowledge of Environment
  
• Reiatsu Drain
  
• Black Inferno Blast

Demon Abilities

• Kage Chōkyō-shi
  
• Affinity for Hell
  
• Sacrificing Incantation
  
• Curse Effect
  
• Body Manipulation

» Ziamichi Spirit Powers: (Put their powers here)
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» Unique Traits: All of Hacchakeru's Natural Abilities are present in and around Haeru whether he likes it or not though Haeru's own Aura of Hedonism only extends 30 yards unless he purposely widens it. He also has a major resistance to substances that are narcotic or intoxicating, requiring massive amounts to have even a tiny effect. This doesn't affect his cravings for them, however.

» Forms: Haeru and Hacchakeru really have three forms between them: Haeru by himself, Haeru channeling Hacchakeru, and Hacchakeru completely in control. Both Haeru and Hacchakeru are always in Saca ātmā (contsant release) as they simply don't have tiered forms.

» Drawbacks: Even though Hacchakeru's power is incomplete compared to what it once was, Haeru's body just isn't up to handling it for large periods of time. Eventually the strain starts to cause physical and mental distress up to the point that Hacchakeru's power coursing through Haeru's body long enough will eventually cause the pair to black out.

» Control: Haeru's control probably sits at about a 6 because they've been bonded from birth and their connection is pretty strong. The main limiting factor is the aforementioned strain that Hacchakeru's powers puts on Haeru's body.

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» Ziamichi Host Class: (Ranging from E to the weakest and A to the strongest; With S being a special class of Ziamichi's. Don't do anything to this section, as staff will determine how strong your Ziamichi Class is from tier once approved. And yes, the Host can sometimes be stronger then the spirit.)

» Ziamichi Spirit Class: (Ranging from E to the weakest and A to the strongest; With S being a special class of Ziamichi's. Don't do anything to this section, as staff will determine how strong your Ziamichi Class is from tier once approved.)

Skills:
0 Tier is allowed 1 Master, 2 Advanced for each section
1 Tier is allowed 2 Advanced for each section
2 Tier is allowed 1 Advanced, 2 Adept for each section
3 Tier is allowed 1 Adept for each section
4 Tier and below only get beginner.

General Skills For Host

• Durability: Adept
  
• General Speed: Advanced
  
• Strength: Adept
  
• Weapon Skill:

Beginner

Demon Skills for Host

• Za Koa Skill: Adept
  
• Demon Magic: Advanced
  
• Shadow Movement: Adept
  
• Akuma Kyōdo: Beginner
  

Ziamichi Skills For Host

• Skill Of Ziamichi Powers: Adept
  
• Control Over Spirit: Beginner
  
• Seal Strength: Adept
  
• Sync-Rate: Advanced
  

Will Skills For Host

• Willpower/Determination: Adept
  
• Mental Deduction: Advanced
  
• Pain Endurance: Advanced
  
• Focus: Adept
  

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General Skills For Spirit

• Durability: Adept
  
• General Speed: Advanced
  
• Strength: Adept
  
• Weapon Skill:

Beginner

Demon Skills for Spirit

• Za Koa Skill: Adept
  
• Demon Magic: Advanced
  
• Shadow Movement: Adept
  
• Akuma Kyōdo: Beginner
  

Ziamichi Skills For Spirit

• Skill Of Ziamichi Powers: Adept
  
• Control Over Spirit: Beginner
  
• Seal Strength: Adept
  
• Sync-Rate:

Advanced

Will Skills For Spirit

• Willpower/Determination: Adept
  
• Mental Deduction: Advanced
  
• Pain Endurance: Master
  
• Focus: Adept
  

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» Role Play Sample:He'd thought, hoped, that he would never set foot in this place again. And yet, here it was. All this time later, and still his breaths were still unconsciously shallowed by the oppressive metal walls surrounding him. At least the undulating sea that seemed to make up one side of the building did something to ease away the cold sweat that was threatening to build on his hackles. This place could have been one of beauty, but for him...? No amount of mental preparation could reduce the effect that the Deep Sea Research Center was having on him. Ghosts of his past seemed to leer out at him from the empty rooms, and he couldn't help but start when his tail brushed a long-forgotten pen off of a nearby desk. 

"Damn it all! What am I, a scared little child!?"

One lash at the grimy desk the offending item had been sitting on was all it took to leave behind a noticeable claw marking on its surface. Catching himself getting riled up, REDACTED slowly returned his rigid arms to a relaxed position at his side before slowly taking in and releasing a breath. Brushing a non-existent lock of electric blue hair out of his face, he composed himself as if for the benefit of an equally non-existent audience before moving on. His objective would take him deeper into the facility; deeper than he had ever seen during his stay there. Ironically, he realized, the unfamiliarity of it might actually do something to diminish his sense of unease. Moving ever-downward, the half-breed's mind began to turn to the task on hand. 

[i]'Sources tell of the possibility of hidden weapons incredible power in your home world. In fact, you are quite familiar with where they may lie. The readings coming from that particular region of your world are too interesting to simply ignore. Something is hidden there. You are to find out what. If it's anything useful, feel free to take it for a test run and let me know how it works, hmm?' His patron had told him. Originally he had assumed that she was talking about his homeland of Esthar, another experience that he had no desire to relive. But this... He had never expected to end up in this place. 

Somewhere in this facility was something... or somethings giving off a powerful magical aura. He could feel it clearly, but it permeated the air around him in such a way that it was entirely impossible to tell where it was coming from. All he could do was cover as much ground as possible while investigating anything that seemed suspicious. After all, it was a secret, underwater laboratory. If that didn't scream super-weapons research, what did? Opening yet another door into yet another hallway full of -what else?-, doors, he was rewarded by the sight of card readers lining the walls. People had once required security clearance to access these rooms, though the system of magnetic locks keeping the doors shut had long since failed. 

Walking to the nearest door on his left, he examined the placard which like so many before it simply bore a nonsensical designation made up of letters and numbers. 

"So what's behind door number... 52QN?" He grandstanded in an imitation of the comedian he had once watched on TV in his childhood. With one florid motion, he unsheathed his sword and jammed it into the frame of the door with a twist to destroy the physical lock before giving it a swift kick. He was rewarded with the door clattering extremely loudly against the surface of the wall behind it and nearly rebounding into his face. "Hey, anybody home? Hope I'm not interrupting anything?"

But of course, no, there was not a soul in sight. Instead he saw filing cabinets. Row upon row of dingy silver monstrosities glared back at him as if upset that he had disturbed their slumber. Absentmindedly blowing the dust motes that floated around his face as he took a cursory look at the room, he noted morbidly that even the spider webs were abandoned in this place. Definitely not what he was looking for, but maybe... Maybe these cabinets hid not files, but some sort of dark, terrible secret just waiting to see the light of day? ... Or maybe background checks for researchers, he decided as he inspected the contents of the nearest container. That was certainly anticlimactic. Couldn't there at least have been the plans for some sort of doomsday weapon in there? 

He was beginning to feel the twinges of boredom when he stopped cold and stood straight up, nostrils flaring subconsciously. Something had changed. Something was out there somewhere that had not been there a few minutes ago. Something living. Mind starting to race, READACTED couldn't help but wonder if this could be what he was looking for. Had something made a home in the facility and gone out only to return? Doubt clawed at him, and while he made up his mind whether to pursue the new source of magic, he made his way into the room across the hall in a much less grandiose fashion. Stopping dead for the second time in the space of a minute, the yellow-eyed teen found himself staring into a laboratory, finally. And what was in the glass case at the far end of the expansive room but a large object that was nearly his size, reeked of magic, and looked suspiciously like a bomb. Perhaps something to the tune of a really big, ludicrously destructive bomb developed in a secret evil laboratory?

The grin that split his face was positively Cheshire.

Deepest Sleep

Pretty much the only issue, and a small one at that, I need you to give me an average time in posts in how quickly this will put an opponent to rest. It will not be the end all, as tougher opponents would take longer, and weaker opponents quicker.

Edited.

• Name [O]
  
• Appropriate Age [O]
  
• Gender [O]
  
• Appearance Present [O]
  
• Appearance Described in Appropriate Length OR Picture is Visible [O]
  
• Appearance is Not Claimed [O]
  
• 10 sentences for personality [O]
  
• History is of appropriate length [O]
  
• Powers are not Godmod/Overpowered [O]
  
• Powers are described reasonably enough [O]
  
• Application/RP Sample is not in First Person [O]
  
• Skills are not filled in (Omit if a Hollow)[O]
  
• RP Sample Present (Omit if this is not the first character) [O]
  
• RP Sample is 10 sentences [O]
  

• Willpower/Determination: Adept
  
• Mental Deduction: Advanced
  
• Pain Endurance: Advanced
  
• Focus: Adept
  

• Willpower/Determination: Adept
  
• Mental Deduction: Advanced
  
• Pain Endurance: Master
  
• Focus: Adept
  

Comments/Notes: Your Ziamichi's Host Class is D and your Ziamichi Spirit's Class is B
Tier: 2-4