Name:
TAMAMO ON'YOU -Ninmenjushin-
Abel's Theme - Street Fighter 4
Age: ???
Gender: Female
Specie: Yokai chimera (former Akumashi)
Physical Description: A humanoid indigo fox with nine large golden tails (two tipped with axes, two tipped with drills, two tipped with hidden daggers, and one tipped with a satellite dish), a large mechanical arm with spindly skeletal-like claws, and robotic legs with pistons and shock-absorbing coils. Her left eye is robotic, and she has a small transparent window in her chest revealing two swirling nodes (one black, one white). Part of her torso looks human.
Personality: Initially unfeeling, but when she hears of something unfamiliar, she is overcome with curiosity just to learn about it. As her heart developed, she felt things like kindness, joy, regret, sorrow, and love. She's still learning what she can about these. She may be a little slow on certain things, like sarcasm, but finds joy in playing with others.
History: A synthetic Akumashi designed over a thousand years ago to steal hearts (to turn into more Akumashi). She took on this form by devouring the chi of kitsunes and humans, allowing her to better disguise as the latter. She was then sent as a new courtesan for Emperor Reihou in a mission to assassinate him. At that time, though, she was met by several strangers who spoke of fun and the heart (she was told that they were called "chi generators"). Processing the information caused a conflict in her programming, giving birth to a strange anomaly unseen in any Akumashi. She was struck down in the confusion by a royal archer, becoming petrified for centuries. She was revived in modern years, awakening to Shinzouka. There, she posed as a mere aristocrat, all while trying to learn more about hearts to develop her own.
Equipment: None, save for her chi-channeling claws, axe blades, drills, hidden knives, and analysis dish...which are technically her appendages.
Abilities: She was made to steal hearts, but eventually developed a variant where she steals away evil-tainted chi, purifies it, and takes it into herself (she can distribute this cleansed chi to others if she wills it). Possessing kitsune powers, she can disguise herself as almost anyone she sees. As far as chi elements go, she can utilize Thunder, Ice, Wind, Force, Flower, Time, Shadow, and Light. Also, she can "hack" others with her analysis dish, affecting them in bizarre, sometimes target-specific, ways.
Other: Being composed of chi, her body is rather unstable. Taking too much damage will put a greater strain on her than usual.
TAMAMO ON'YOU -Ninmenjushin-
Abel's Theme - Street Fighter 4
Age: ???
Gender: Female
Specie: Yokai chimera (former Akumashi)
Physical Description: A humanoid indigo fox with nine large golden tails (two tipped with axes, two tipped with drills, two tipped with hidden daggers, and one tipped with a satellite dish), a large mechanical arm with spindly skeletal-like claws, and robotic legs with pistons and shock-absorbing coils. Her left eye is robotic, and she has a small transparent window in her chest revealing two swirling nodes (one black, one white). Part of her torso looks human.
Personality: Initially unfeeling, but when she hears of something unfamiliar, she is overcome with curiosity just to learn about it. As her heart developed, she felt things like kindness, joy, regret, sorrow, and love. She's still learning what she can about these. She may be a little slow on certain things, like sarcasm, but finds joy in playing with others.
History: A synthetic Akumashi designed over a thousand years ago to steal hearts (to turn into more Akumashi). She took on this form by devouring the chi of kitsunes and humans, allowing her to better disguise as the latter. She was then sent as a new courtesan for Emperor Reihou in a mission to assassinate him. At that time, though, she was met by several strangers who spoke of fun and the heart (she was told that they were called "chi generators"). Processing the information caused a conflict in her programming, giving birth to a strange anomaly unseen in any Akumashi. She was struck down in the confusion by a royal archer, becoming petrified for centuries. She was revived in modern years, awakening to Shinzouka. There, she posed as a mere aristocrat, all while trying to learn more about hearts to develop her own.
Equipment: None, save for her chi-channeling claws, axe blades, drills, hidden knives, and analysis dish...which are technically her appendages.
Abilities: She was made to steal hearts, but eventually developed a variant where she steals away evil-tainted chi, purifies it, and takes it into herself (she can distribute this cleansed chi to others if she wills it). Possessing kitsune powers, she can disguise herself as almost anyone she sees. As far as chi elements go, she can utilize Thunder, Ice, Wind, Force, Flower, Time, Shadow, and Light. Also, she can "hack" others with her analysis dish, affecting them in bizarre, sometimes target-specific, ways.
Other: Being composed of chi, her body is rather unstable. Taking too much damage will put a greater strain on her than usual.
Specific Moves
- Megaton Ray: Builds power, then fires electric beams from her drills and axes.
- Cold Touch: Engulfs self in a frigid aura. Any foe attacking directly becomes frozen instead.
- Freeze Shock: Swings her axes forth, sending out a large white shockwave that freezes foes.
- Tornado Lathe: Spins around in a vortex, rushing forth.
- Magnet Bomb: Sends out a chi bomb that homes in on foes.
- Tether Tag: Grabs a foe and binds him/her to a chi chain, restricting movement and momentum.
- Lullaroma: Summons a pink floral mist that can slow foes, even put them to sleep.
- Floral Grace: Sends out a wave of flower-shaped beams in a fanned out pattern. They come out fast, then drift out for a bit.
- Chrono Lock: Targets a foe, then teleports behind him/her.
- Temporal Gale: Waves forth with a backhand, which makes a dimensional gale occur later.
- Dark Bomb: Casts a blob of shadow, which explodes in a set amount of time. Can be pushed to foes, or dragged by a Magnet Bomb.
- Stealth Rise: Sends shadow out, then warps through it in an uppercut.
- Photon Array: Casts various light beams forth.
- Light Shield: Creates a barrier that travels forth, blocking attacks.
- Disguise: Alters appearance and voice to that of someone else she witnesses.
- Lag Boost: Hack ability. Adds lag to the start of foes' actions.
- Invert-Axis: Hack ability. This strange move makes foes move backwards when trying to walk forward, and attack in the opposite direction of what they intend.
- Weak-Hearted: Hack ability. Makes foes tire out gradually while in effect, but will use up chi.
- Scan Download: Hack ability. Analyzes a target's attributes, then temporarily boosts any of hers that are lower.
- Alter-Allegiance: Hypnotizes a foe, making him/her obey Tamamo's commands for a while.
- Kamikaze: Powerful Hack ability. Target's chi eventually creates an explosion around self.
- Yokai Sense: Fortune power. Slows perception of combat, increasing own reaction time greatly.
- Hidden Assassin: Fortune power. Becomes invisible, immune to attacks unless attacking.
- Nightmare Eater: Fortune power. Drains out chi and assimilates it. Purifies any unclean chi taken.
Inspirations
- Tamamo-no-mae (Japanese mythology)
- T-850 (Terminator)
- The Spy (Team Fortress 2)
- Miss Bloody Rachel (Viewtiful Joe 2)
- Lambda-11 (BlazBlue)
- Blade Wolf (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance)
- Abel (Street Fighter 4)
- Nobodies (Kingdom Hearts)
- Riku (Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance)
- TEC (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)
- Calne Ca (VOCALOID; Deino)
Trivia
- In legend, Tamamo-no-Mae was a courteson of untold beauty and wisdom, leading the Emperor Konoe to fall in love with her. He would later become ill thanks to Tamamo, who was actually a nine-tailed kitsune hired by a malicious daimyo who wanted Konoe's throne. Kazusa-no-suke and Miura-no-suke pursued and killed her with an arrow, her corpse becoming Sessho-seki, the Killing Stone. The tale for this Tamamo is slightly different, though, but it's possible this took place sometime after this Tamamo.
- She was designed as a cyborg to fit the theme of a heartless assassin (at first, anyway).
- Her main colors are purple, gold, light blue, and red, all colors of royalty.
- The kanji on her outfit stands for "dare mo", which means "nobody".
- Cold Touch derives from one of Amea's moves in Flash Bash, where she gives off a cold aura that counters attackers by freezing them.
- Her use of Flower chakra alludes to how Tamamo-no-Mae always smelled nice.
- Shadow Rise has inspirations from Greninja's Shadow Sneak in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS.
- Some of her Hack abilities are based on the Reality Shift in The Grid (Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance). With this, Sora and Riku could alter the behavior of some enemies or obstacles, even turn them into living bombs.