- Kotone Motosuwa
- Koto, The Pale Priestess
- Female
- Human, Japanese
- December 27th, 1991
- 22
- Fujinomiya, Japan. She recently moved into town and is staying at the local shrine.
- Neutral Good
- 5'7"
- 127 lbs.
- Fit and healthy, Kotone is a girl who certainly eats well but under any of that softness lies a finely maintained body of unexpected strength.
- Purple
- Silver. Clearly her most defining feature, Kotone's long and curly silver locks are an envy of many and is the primary aspect that earned her her namesake as the Silver Priestess.
- Right
- Pale and fair
- Koto's body is free of scarring of any sort despite any injuries that may have warranted such in the past thanks to her body's natural regeneration, she couldn't keep a piercing if she wanted to.
- Demisexual
- Single
- Kotone is an only child despite her parent's best efforts. She is Bato's cousin and has recently been transferred to Fujinomiya in reaction to the rise of Yokai related problems. The two were never very close but Kotone holds him in high regard and respect.
- While many might call Kotone 'strange', insane would be a bit of a stretch. She has a rather fine control over her emotions and has developed quite the poker face to use when the need arises.
- Kotone is generally a very friendly woman to human or yokai alike. She has been friendly acquaintances, particularly back home, but tends not to develop too many close relationships since most people don't quite treat her as an equal but rather as someone to be respected.
- Kotone possesses a rather focused and disciplined mind, but even she has her limits. Under extreme duress her emotions can get the better of her though this is something that rarely happens. Aside from this she is also quite the actor and is quite good at bluffing.
- Food | Snow | Children | Helping others | Clothes & dressing up | Anything soft or fluffy | Frogs & insects | Getting lost
- Wasting food | Fighting | Technology | Pain & suffering | The heat | Tomatoes | Being rushed while eating | Weapons
- Eating | Shopping | Taking long walks | Collecting secrets | Dressing other people up
- Kotone is a bit of an enigmatic being. Though she often comes off as a whimsical woman with strange interests and hobbies and as someone who's warm and caring and kind, she can, at the flip of a switch, make that all disappear behind a flat poker face that could only belong to someone who is deadly serious. Though she seems to prefer to show off her playful side she never hesitates to put it aside as the situation requires. Takane likes to surround herself with cute, innocent, or fluffy things and often comes across as a motherly figure to those she's taken under wing. She's a very patient, tolerant, and open-minded woman (at least when it doesn't have to do with technology) and is someone who usually gives off quite a calming and relaxed aura. While her pace might be slow by most standards it's a speed she prefers and she rather dislikes being or feeling rushed.
- While Kotone carries no physical weaponry she does possess ability to manipulate a living being's vital essences via touch and spiritual energy.
- In truth Kotone prefers not to fight at all, if she can she will always try to defuse a situation through words rather than violence. Should that fail, her primary objective is to avoid harm herself and avoid harming the other party in any serious way as she attempts to bring the conflict to an end.
- Kotone is primarily trained in Judo as a means of hand to hand combat, preferring this method of using an opponent's own strength against them and tossing them about or taking them down as opposed to the more strike-focused nature of other martial arts.
- Aside from the more typical training most shrine maidens or priestesses would receive Kotone possesses a single unique ability referred to as 'The Touch of Life and Death'. By making physical contact with an individual and the careful use of spiritual energy Kotone has the ability to manipulate the life force that flows through every living creature. Kotone's expertise in the ability certainly lies in the 'life' side of things, adept in healing wounds and curing illnesses or even restoring life to the very recently deceased. As for the 'death' part, the worst Kotone could do is make someone sick to their stomach, but vomiting does have a tendency to end many fights rather quickly.
- Born to a family of priests and priestesses, Kotone knew from a young age that she would be carrying on this tradition and upholding her family name and tradition as a priestess herself. It wasn't long into her training that her rather unique talent was discovered and once it was, her life took a slightly unexpected turn. Her life was no longer that of just an ordinary priestess, her status was instantly elevated and the focus of her life was shifted to honing her special talent. It would be hard to say that her life was average or uneventful, but in the grand scope of things she had rarely had to deal with anything particularly dramatic or traumatic.
Kotone has always been a force for establishing good relations between the Yokai and humanity and tried to be a diplomat and mediator for the two communities. With the rising tension between the groups thanks to the recent surge of conflicts this has kept her a bit busier as of late. Very recently however she's been called to change posts from her home shrine to one at the base of Mt. Fuji in reaction to a spike in violent and troubling happenings.
- Kotone belongs a long family line of priests and priestesses. While they're not particularly large or well-known, they are well respected and quite celebrated in their local community.