Dongfang Yuechu

Description

Onmyōdō, or the way of Yin and Yang, practitioners of the art are typically called Onmyoji, though Dongfang would prefer to be called a simple Taoist. The art allows for mastery over Yin and Yang, along with the five elements. These elements are typically represented by the five rings as fire, earth, wind, water, and the void, though in other Eastern cultures such as the Chinese these may be represented as wood, water, fire, metal, and earth. It is said Onmyoji are masters of divination, astronomy, controlling and dispelling evil creatures, and even summoning and binding shikigami to do their bidding.

Personality:

Long ago, the taoist made a Pledge of Eternal Love under the Tree of Bitter Love with a Kitsune from the Tu Shan Spirit clan. He has since been reincarnated many times, as is the nature of the pledge, only to find that his loved one died shortly after his most recent birth. To this end Dongfang hates any Yokai who have taken the pledge with a passion, seeking out and destroying them where he finds them, determined to make sure he is not the only one to suffer this wrenching pain in his heart. Deep down he is a kind and warm-hearted man, and sometimes he even finds himself showing mercy to the ones he swore to destroy. However he hates the Matchmakers in Tu Shan with a passion, abhorring their very existence, as he sees his pain as their failure to uphold their duty. He loves food, especially sweets, and can often be bribed with simple offerings of candy. It is rumored he allied himself with the Black Fox Queen, antithesis to the Tu Shan Spirit Clan, in order to better destroy them, and incredibly severe and random mood swings seem to support this idea.

General

Age: 22

Weaponry: Dongfang possesses an unnatural level of experience with Onmyodo, as he has been reincarnated multiple times and grown more skilled with every life. Due to his bloodline he possesses the Pure Yang Flame, a fire created within one's soul that burns, purifies, and utterly destroys Yokai, and only Yokai, leaving him immune to its effects. In his Pledge of Eternal Love, his wife gave him a majority of her Yokai powers, and one half of her Tears of the Void. Xukong Zhilei (Void Tears) are generated from his actual tears, and usually cause him great physical damage to manifest, however they cut through space as they move, can be directed at will, and things they come in contact with tend to cease to exist. There have been incidents where the tears only move things through Space/Time, and as such Dongfang uses them only as a last resort. There have been rumors he can manifest Black Fox Tails, and gain increased power, but no one has lived to confirm such Tall Tales.



Birthday: October 1st

Clan: Leader of the Taoist/Onmyoji League

Time in the Village: 3 years

Role: Strategic Foil, Antagonist, stirring up trouble, defender of humans in the face of Yokai