Jikorin
"Rin"
Name: Jikorin
Race: Bakeneko (Youkai Cat)
Age: 495 Years
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Jikorin appears to be a black cat at first, but instead of green eyes, hers are red, and she has a blazing red stomach. Her tail is tipped in red. She is two feet high normally, but can change size. She can be as big as a puma, or even as big as a dragon. In humanoid form, she stands at about five-foot-three.
It's the cat that tamed the human,
Skills: Bakeneko, cats that live for a very long time to become Youkai, are very troublesome, having a myriad of abilities. If you have a bad cat, at least you don't have one of these, yet. Jikorin's abilities include;
• Size-Shifiting - Jikorin can change her size, from that of a kitten, to that of a lion, or even a dragon.
• Disguise - She can change her appearance to that of a human, or somewhere between.
• Speech - Anything can speak with the right vocal cords and enough time to learn. Jikorin, however, rarely speaks, as she finds it more fun to do things 'how a cat would'.
• Necromancy - Jikorin has the ability to reanimate the corpses of the dead simply by leaping over them. Often, however, they are possessed by evil spirits or demons under her control.
• Pyromancy - Jikorin can use the power of evil spirits as fireballs or will-o-wisps to mislead or attack enemies or create fires. This would be the equivalent of setting a soul on fire.
Weapons: She uses none, even in her human form. The most she'll attack with is with her claws.
Personality:
About as catty as a cat can get. She's lazy, but loves attention, and will come and go as she pleases without the consent of others. She'll make any mess she pleases, but is usually docile. You can never tell what a cat will do. Though behind her cat-nature, she is what one could consider, a mastermind, more or less. She is always doing what she thinks is best for her, and whatever makes her life easy. However, she is also very cowardly, and will easily abandon others at the first sight of real danger toward herself. Her biggest fear is that of death.
Bio:
Jikorin was once an ordinary cat, just like any other, enjoying the benefits of being a cat. She was under the ownership of humans, or at least that's what they thought, and rather high-class humans at that. They'd spoil Jikorin, and Jikorin enjoyed herself, and whenever she wasn't under the attention of her caretakers, she'd run off and do what a cat did.
However, Jikorin grew old and grew weaker by the day, something her caretakers had not yet noticed. She'd develop a habit of sneaking around at night and licking oil lamps, trying to satiate a craving she couldn't identify. However, one night, she wasn't so careful, and knocked one over, setting the household ablaze which ended up killing those who lived there.
Jikorin would return to the household the next day, to find the souls of the dead homeowners still residing there. Perhaps they were still waiting to travel into the next life, or they hadn't realized they were dead, or perhaps became vengeful spirits. Still, dead souls still retained the magic energy known as Od found in all living things (despite the fact that humans had little of it compared to other creatures). Also, the smelled of death, a smell that was retained in oil as well. Jikorin at that moment, being as she could see the spirits as cats had better eyes, decided to consume the souls of the death, and found that all her strength had returned. From that moment on, Jikorin would sneak into the homes of the dying or the newly dead, or into any building that had spirits still residing in it, and would consume them, giving her strength and prolonging her life, and even gave her all new powers.
Though, a couple decades later, her 'owners' would realize that their family cat had somehow been living long past a cat's normal lifespan, and while they thought it was simply lucky, and that licking oil lamps was simply a cat habit, many others knew that they were the signs of her becoming a Bakeneko, a Cat Youkai. At this time, distrust toward paranormal creatures was beginning to rise once again, and once her caretakers had figured out the truth, thanks to a trap set for Jikorin, she was locked inside a storehouse for an entire week, before a magician whom was a specialist on exorcisms had arrived to dispose of her. However, just before the specialist arrived, Jikorin had somehow managed to set the storehouse on fire by lighting a spirit on fire (she had recently began collecting souls and hiding them in her fur for emergencies) and by sacrificing it, was able to escape unharmed, and into the mountains.
From then on, she would travel (usually by hitchhiking) from place to place, to collect the souls of the newly dead and the vengeful spirits that haunted buildings. Though, she would still stick around for a while to receive the benefits of being a cat from the cat-loving humans. Though, now, with a feud between humans and paranormal creatures, Jikorin is in a very dangerous place. Jikorin is very unlikely to fight on the side of humans, as she is a coward, but it is unknown if she could possibly be working as a spy for one or more factions of paranormal creatures.
