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”I will not go quietly into the night. I am the law, and I am the night.“
Name(s): Yin Ashton
Nickname(s): Yin, Ash | Resolute Judge
Age: 25
Sex: Female
Birthday: 22 / 4 / X755
Sexuality: Bisexual
Class: Scavenger
Alignment: Lawful - Neutral
Rank: B - Rank
Guild: Rune Knights - Ivy Knights
Guild Tattoo: Navy Blue | Base of the throat
Face Claim: Bianshi - Dynasty Warriors
II. APPEARANCE
Height: 5’5”
Weight: 123 lbs
Hair: Black
Eyes: Black
General Appearance: Of average height, Yin stands at five feet, five inches tall. She has a slim body that appears as if she takes great pains to maintain her figure. Though slim, she is by no means flat or lacking for curvature. In possession of a moderate bust of a woman of her size and age, she is actually quite proud of the fact that she isn’t walking around with a couple of beach balls on her chest. Though she wouldn’t reveal it, or rather, reveal much of it, her body is toned, as it should be for someone who is in the employ of the Rune Knights. Her eyes are pure black, with a little light to be seen within them. Sometimes the light is mischief, sometimes its knowing, sometimes its amusement. One can only hope to know what’s going on in her head. Her black hair falls straight, down to her tailbone. It’s almost long enough for her to accidentally sit on it, but she makes sure that never happens. A quick cut with one of her spells, and her hair is right at the length she wants it. She keeps two long locks to frame her face, then a small section of bangs that fall down to the very tops of her eyes. Ever since she was young, she’s looked more youthful than she actually is. Not that she’s complaining. It’s better to be mistaken for someone’s sister than their mother.
Her clothing varies depending on whether she is on duty or not. When she’s not on duty, her clothing remains rather simple. She prefers the feel of long t-sihrts, which she will wear something like a dress. She doesn’t leave her home often, so this is enough for her most of the time. If she does have to leave the house, she’ll keep the long shirt, but she will also wear a pair of shorts, and some oriental slippers to protect her feet. When on duty, it can be said that she takes a certain pride in her appearance as a member of the Rune Knights. A chinese dress that fits snug to her body, and zipping up at the back. The right side of the dress is cut open, starting a few inches below her hip line. The top of the dress is separated from the bottom by a split running above her chest and a hole in the back. It connects to the main dress under the arms, and the sleeves extend to her elbow. The top extends up her throat a little, snug as the rest of the dress, and zips up at the front. This normally conceals her ‘guild’ tattoo, though it is an easy feat for her to reveal it. On her feet she will wear black oriental slippers with a red trip and a strap that goes around her ankle. Around her right thigh, revealed by the cut in her dress is a black garter that she uses to store anything she might need from a pencil, to a stick of gum, or usually a nail sharpener.
Extra: She wears several accessories when she’s all dolled up for duty as a rune knight. First of which and most noticeable is a red shawl that hangs from her elbows and around her back. Next on her list of accessories is two blue teardrop earrings. Finally, there’s a headpiece. Shaped something like two ribbons wrapped about one another, with four tassels hanging from it. Two from each spire that extends up above her head. It’s actually a light plastic, with a comb that helps her secure it to the back of her head and the sides.
Her pride and joy though that she takes everywhere with her on missions is a erhu. An instrument of the orient, she inherited it from her mother. Odd as it may be, she carries it with her wherever she goes when she’s on a mission. While it holds no magical properties, it is incredibly well made, and thus sturdy. She uses the bow of the instrument when casting her magic if she’s able, leading sometimes to the impression that the magic comes from the instrument, rather than herself. She practices with it when she can, and if she thinks it would be funny, she will actually enter an area while playing it braced on her hip.
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III. PERSONALITY
Personality: Yin might be a strict woman, but her heart it in the right place. The law is the law for a reason after all. And if you maliciously break it, then you’re maliciously going against everything you know to be right and just. She can’t allow such elements to exist in society, or society itself is likely to collapse. When on a job, she follows her orders as best she can, and even when out and about going on with her daily business, she keeps to the law. Which is probably a good thing because if not for public decency, she would be likely to wander out into the world with no pants on. Just her shirt and nothing else. So thank the law for that. Or curse it as some do when she follows it to the letter. If the law says no parking after six, and its six o’five, then its a ticket. Its a hard job, keeping law and order inline in the world, but it has to be done by someone. And in her spare time, maybe she can convince a few people just why she acts how she does. Get a few friends that can help her goals along.
Likes:
- Sweets
- Law
- Her erhu
- Laying about the house all day when she’s not on a mission
- Recognition
- Getting what she wants
Dislikes:
- Sour foods
- Chaos
- Her family heirloom being threatened
- Someone telling her what she can and cannot wear on her days off
- Dark Guilds
- Being denied what she wants while its right in front of her
Motivations:
- To earn her place. Yin doesn’t like pity. She doesn’t like someone giving her something because they feel sorry for her. Sure some people can get by on that, but if she gets something, she wants it to be because she earned it. If she got it from pity, it can be taken away at any time. If she earns it, then its hers forever. No one will be able to take it from her, and anyone that tries will find themselves on the wrong side of the law. And not just possessions. Ranks, money, trust, anything that can be earned, she’d rather earn it with her own two hands than let someone give it to her because she’s a pretty girl. She can’t understand girls who try to get things just by being pretty.
- Being liked. Sure its a silly thing, but when you have the habit of always following the law, and your code to the letter, well being liked becomes a major concern. There are bound to be some people who don’t like the way she runs things. And fewer still that do like her for her job. What she wants though are people who can see past her job and her position and like her for who she is. Some might see it as childish, but they have their things to worry about, and Yin has hers.
Fears:
- She fears imprisonment. Not for the actual punishment of it. She’s too tough for something like that to break her. No, what she fears about imprisonment is the loss of prestige. Once you’ve been to jail, there’s no washing that stigma from you. It becomes a permanent mark on your life. None will trust you. None will worship you except for disordered rabble. And worst of all, none will like you except for disordered rabble. She likes being liked. Even if you coldly follow the law, you’re still following the law, and there will be someone who will like you for it. One misstep, and everything she worked for comes crumbling down.
- Secondly, she fears the dark. A childish fear sure, but it is one that has stayed with her since childhood. They say ignorance is bliss, and they are correct. Where a child fears the dark because they don’t know what is in it, Yin fears the dark because she knows just what can lurk in it. Not monsters. Not things that will eat her if given half a chance, but people. The greatest source of all darkness. Those immoral people with no sort of code to follow. She has slept with a candle near her bed whenever she can help it, and packs several when traveling in case the inns she stops in don’t have any to spare.
Positive Traits:
- Regeneration (+4): You heal very fast inside and outside of combat. Small cuts that go up to one inch deep are healed in the next post.
Negative Traits:
- Proud (-1): You don't like accepting help from others. If a gift or offer of aid smacks of charity or pity even the slightest bit, you grow indignant and refuse it.
- Night Blindness (-2): Your night vision isn't worth squat, due to a physiological deficiency. This is due to a birth defect, and therefore cannot be healed by any means.
- Judgmental (-1): You form opinions quickly and change them very slowly. You also have a tendency to judge people on their appearance. A man dressed as a pirate, no matter how gentlemanly, is a scoundrel and a dog as far as you is concerned. A man covered in mud is a peasant, and a woman wearing revealing clothing is a prostitute.
Explanation: You must act very disgusted and displeased when your dislike comes into play. [Dark Guild Members]
IV. MAGIC
Magic: Oriental Solid Script
Caster or Holder: Caster
Description: Oriental Solid Script is a caster type magic that can be confused with holder type as it can be worked through objects. The magic comes from the person though, not the specific object being held. Like solid script, with this magic the user is able to write words in mid air to various effect. Unlike normal solid script, Oriental Solid Script is able to be a little more abstract in the connection between its written words, and their effect. For example, a solid script user would have t write something like wall or barrier to defend themselves. An Oriental Solid Script user can write the word defend in kanji and use that as a shield directly.
Strengths: Versatility is the greatest strength of a user of solid script magic. Because it is based on words, its uses are only limited by the words in the language of the orient that the user knows. Words can also be combined to create a stronger effect than they would have separately. Another benefit of oriental solid script is confusion. Unless the opponent is familiar with script from the orient, it is hard to know just what it is a spell will do until its effect comes into play. With normal solid script, the words are written in common so the enemy can devise a counter strategy right away. Those who fight against a user of oriental solid script have to see it used once or twice, or several more times before the exact usage of the script can be determined.
Weaknesses: The problem with versatility, is that it spreads one thin. It is entirely possible to be countered if someone is able to cancel an oriental solid script word out. The greatest threat comes from other solid script users. If one writes fire, the other can use water to put it out. If one writes wind, the other can use ’stone wall’. If one script user wrote a word for noise, another can silence it. Of course, this isn’t something limited to just other solid script users. A water mage can cancel out a fire script, a sound mage can silence a sound script. It all depends on the luck of the draw, which spells an oriental solid script user will actually be able to use. All elemental spells are thus subject to their natural weakness. In addition, since this magic involves the use of writing, the user’s hands must be free in order to use their magic. Obviously use of their arms makes it easier, but if they cannot move either of their hands, from wrist to fingertip, then they can no longer use their magic.
V. HISTORY
History:
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- Yin's mother came from the Orient, as one would be able to guess from her first name, and her style of dress. She came to Fiore to try and find some work in a factory, but things didn't turn out as she planned. She ended up working in a brothel, not tending to clients, but as a maid. Cleaning sheets and the like. It didn't pay all that well, but it gave her a roof over her head. She thought it was as good a place as any to start. There were rumors that she was the displaced princess of some small oriental kingdom who had to flee. She came to Fiore to work her way up to power and prestige that she might one day reclaim what was hers. That was her original plan. What ended up happening was that she ended up working in that brothel for five years without even the slightest sign of being able to climb any higher. Even her job was at stake. She was unintentionally luring men away from the girls they were originally there to see. She was an exotic beauty, and no amount of dirt from cleaning the messes of others could seem to cover that up. She was given a decision. Start taking on more vigorous work, or leave.
Given a week to decide, Yin's mother was almost ready to give in, when a mysterious gentleman entered the brothel. He'd heard of the oriental beauty working as a maid, and had come to claim her for himself. He courted Yin's mother for that week. Offering money, fine jewelry and such. A pampered life that was accepted immediately. The gentleman, with the last name of Ashton, took Yin's mother back to his home, where she was given everything she wanted. Ashton was the son of a successful merchant family. The second son no less, so he got all the perks without having to worry about one day taking over the family business. He dated Yin's mother for many years, and was of a mind to marry her when tragedy struck. His brother, on his way back from a business meeting in another town, was attacked by a roaming wyvern. He did not survive the encounter. Suddenly, the second son was expected to take on all the responsibilities left behind by his older brother. This included his brother's fiance. While he was still the second son, the man's parents didn't care who he married, but not that he had to be groomed to become the public face of their business, they couldn't let him be wed to some oriental girl who used to work as a maid. And the decision of the man's parents was absolute.
Yin’s mother was allowed to stay, at first still serving as the second son’s mistress. After the wedding, the suspicious and jealous wife had her demoted to a maid. Yin’s mother only stayed because she was sure the second Ashton son loved her, not the woman he had been forced to marry. One evening, she went to his room to tell him some delightful news. She was carrying his child. The second son was overjoyed, and made plans to run away with the girl he loved. The jealous wife, who had come to try and conceive a child with the second son found out. She kicked Yin’s mother out into the streets the next afternoon, while the second son was busy with a meeting. When he returned, the jealous wife was all scratched up and beaten. Self inflicted wounds to try and sell her story that Yin’s mother had attacked her like a madwoman, trying to kill her before stealing her jewels. The second son didn’t believe her, but Yin’s mother wasn’t there to give the truth, and his parents pressured him not to go after the girl. With a heavy heart, he had to move on in life.
As did Yin’s mother. Kicked out of her home with only a few possessions, she tried to make due with what she had. Selling her clothes and jewels to keep herself well fed for the sake of her child. She lived in alleys, coming out in the day to play the erhu she’d kept with her all this time for coins. When Yin came into the world, it was in a small inn room. The last week of her pregnancy, Yin’s mother saved enough coins to buy the room. She went a little hungrier, but she didn’t want her child’s first sight to be darkness and dreary alleyways. Even though Yin’s mother felt betrayed by the woman who drove her from her home and the man she loved, she saw fit to give Yin the family name of her father. She was able to stay in the inn for a time, playing her music and caring for her child. When Yin was five, and no longer required the strict attention of her mother, the innkeeper tried to seduce Yin’s mother. When she refused, the petty man refused them board. Yin had to watch as her mother’s health went on a steady decline as it seemed she had given up on the world.
She learned the letters her mother grew up with, and learned to play the instrument her mother cherished almost as much as her daughter. Her mother told stories of the cruelty of the world, and of its light. Unfortunately, the stories of light were far outweighed by those of darkness. Yin almost developed the mindset that only those with the most power and control could live a good life. And she knew she had neither. But she also saw that those with good hearts got what was coming to them. So long as they had good control over themselves. She exercised control wherever she could. On herself to learn her mother’s letters, and on her income. She would play on street corners, but only accepted the coins of those who actually stopped to listen. Not the men and women who tossed a coin to the grubby player girl. Those pity coins she left with other beggars. She wanted to get by on merit, not pity. Pity would go to those who really needed it.
Yin lost her mother during a particularly harsh storm when she was ten. There was a hidden space in a wall that her mother usually occupied to preserve her health from the elements. During the storm though, Yin’s mother saw that her daughter would become too sickly to survive if she stayed in the rain. So she forced her daughter into the space of the wall, and would not let her out all night, despite the girl’s pleas. When Yin woke the next morning, dry and somewhat comfortable, her mother was gone. She’d died in the night, and someone had come to take the body without noticing the girl. Working just for herself, the coins she brought in were able to keep her well fed. She played in various bars and taverns as entertainment in exchange for payment and a room to stay for the night. She was fifteen when she caught the attention of the rune knights. She was still practicing her mother’s letters at the time when a man ran in with a sword and demanded money. Yin knew if the inn was robbed, the sweet old man who took her in might go hungry.. She held up a finger and pretended to write the word for hit on the side of the man’s head with her finger. Before she knew what was going on, the word appeared in the air, flew towards the man and knocked him in the side of the head.
It didn’t knock him out. Not immediately at least, but the man did lose his balance, knock his head on the bar, and pass out. The two Rune Knights at the back of the inn who had been preparing to apprehend the man took him, and the girl as well. Yin thought she was in trouble, but instead, she was given an opportunity. She was told she had talent, using magic at such a young age. And a rare magic too. Oriental Solid Script. Yin didn’t realize that was what had occurred until the men said it. And so her choice was this, go on about her business and train herself, or become a Rune Knight, receive proper training, and live a life better and more noble than that of a mere mage in the employ of some guild. Yin did get some enjoyment out of helping the innkeeper. and now she had the chance of doing that for more than just her own home town. So she grabbed the chance, and hasn’t looked back.
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