Title: New Coven Shade Squad Member (not sure if this counts)
Age: 225
Gender: Female
Appearance: Originally, Kore's hair was a deep auburn brown. Over time a lot of the red bleached out of it, so that it's mostly just a chestnut brown, although there is just a bit of auburn left. It is long and wavy and most of the time either let down or tied in a braid. Kore is very athletic (both as a result of the demon bite and as a result of her sports' training before the transformation). She's a bit flat, but has very toned legs. She has an oval face with a rather pointy chin. Her skin is very pale, and she burns rather easily. She has some faded freckles across her nose, although these are barely noticeable.
Originally:
Currently (or you may look at the character avatar):
-Height: 5'1"
-Weight: 107 lbs
-Body Frame: She's very fit and built sturdily. From a distance, she looks petite, but close up, one can see that she's more stocky than delicate.
-Eye Color: Brown-gold
Armor/Clothing: Most of the time, Kore wears white or cream sleeveless dresses. She also often uses a white hair band on her hair, although the color sometimes varies with different patterns, though it usually contains white. She does not wear armor. She wears pale pink ballet flats and no other accessories.
Weapon: Technically, Kore carries no weapons, although she can use a staff or bow and arrows rather well (if they happen to be around), and she always has a small bag of variable types of seeds with her.
Skills: Kore was once a martial artist and archer, though she has long since given up both. She still has basic knowledge of her favorite weapon as a martial artist - the staff and she can still shoot with a bow. Kore has very good marksmanship and has an almost perfect hit rate within fifty to two hundred meters, depending on what she's using. Aside from having very good aim, Kore also has the advantage of being very athletic - a bit more so than most Shades.
In battle, Kore tends to rely on instincts and doesn't usually come up with a strategy, though she sometimes follows the strategy of others. Kore relies a lot on power and brute force to win her fights.
Power(s): Kore can increase the growth of any plant exponentially. This allows her (after flicking a seed or a plant, usually very small for convenience of transportation) to tear enemies apart with large thorny vines or to kill them more slowly with poisonous plants. It also gives her a very useful ability to capture people and hold them without need for carrying around ropes. She can also control the movements of the plants remotely.
However, Kore's power cannot extend the plant's growth past what would have happened naturally. Also, the further Kore is from her plant, the harder it is for her to control it with any delicacy. While she can control the plant's movements, once the plant starts growing, it will set down roots and will be unable to move from that place (so no walking plants).
While she technically does not have a second power, Kore does have a strong Demon Aura and her basic power to increase the growth of plants, which is essentially a time-warping thing can also be extended to smaller life forms. However, the higher the life form, the harder it is for her to do so. For example, even a beetle would take most of Kore's energy to grow even a month.
Personality: Kore is cheerful, for the most part, although she can get cranky when she lacks sleep (anything less than 9 hours), lacks enough time outdoors (approximately 1 hour with sun, 2-3 hours without), has nothing to do (for a period of longer than 1 hour), or is denied food for a period of more than 4 hours. She has a wry sense of humor and likes to comment mercilessly on the wrongdoings or idiocy of others. She tries to bring the mood up whenever she can and is stubborn about her views. Once she sees something some way, she's very likely never to change it. Also, Kore is a perfectionist and likes everything to look nice and pretty and organized (although she is frequently too lazy to actually change anything).
Kore does have a very dark, very matter-of-fact view of humans and the world. She believes that its natural for humans to be afraid of them and that humans (and Shades) are innately selfish. They rely on their instincts, and their instincts tell them to believe in only themselves and to care first and foremost for themselves. She does not view this as 'dark', but instead simply calls it the truth. Most of the time, this is never brought up, although if asked, Kore will talk about it with little problem on her part. Also, this view of the world is extended to all creatures (the instinct, the habits) and so she doesn't really blame anyone for doing anything that seems terrible (even Demons) because she views it as nature.
History: Before she was bitten, Kore was mostly the same as she was now, although her assertion that humans were naturally not good creatures was a little less confident than it is now. She was a bit shyer before the change, but since then, for some reason all the shyness has drifted out of her system, and Kore finds it easier to endure awkward silences (though she's still bad at talking to strangers).
In her family, Kore is the first and only child. She grew up mildly spoiled to a dad who was an engineer and a mom who was an aspiring actress. She started martial arts at the age of 6 and archery around the age of 8, when her martial arts coach noticed how natural her aim was. She was a bit of a natural at both, though not so good that she didn't have to try very hard. She was at the point of getting ready to enter larger competitions when the demon invasion hit her city hard.
At the age of 15, her father was killed and Kore was bitten. Kore's mother, thinking that both her loved ones were dead, committed suicide - a fact that Kore is unaware of. She thinks that the demons killed her, too. Kore was pretty feverish after being bitten and was basically useless for several months. However, a year after she was bitten, the war was finally over.
For the next few hundred years, Kore was adopted into the Coven's Manor and grew into a teenager with other Shades. She has had little interaction with actual humans and therefore bears little ill will against them. She has heard stories of how they treat Shades, but she does consider this a natural trait of humans and so doesn't really fault them for it. Kore has also had no interactions with Demons and also considers what they did a 'natural thing' for them to do.