"You mess with the bull, you get the horns."
Theme Song
Before My Body is Dry | Kill La Kill
Kou Izumi
Nickname
Kay,Kiki
Age
People often say she looks between 17-20
Gender
Female
Demon | Mage
Demon || Something ancient that has long since been forgotten.
Sexuality
She hasn't given it much thought.
Nationality
Japanese
Group | Teammates
Four
Face Claim
Nase Izumi || Beyond the Boundary
"Don't even bother."
5'4 115 Ibs.
Hair Colour
Raven black.
Eye Colour
A watery gray.
Physical Description
An athletic type body for a girl who is always on the move, she is long and slender and with ligaments that have incredible flexibility. God has unfortunately not given Kou the ideal chest type for a gymnast as in her words her boobs are "too big." Kou has hair that is raven black, it is incredibly dark but in sunlight can sometimes appear navy. Her eyes are a watery gray with pasty flecks of blue adorning the middle. Her skin is fair and rarely tans, but doesn't burn either. Kou's lips are a creamy pink and when she presses them together they become red rather then white.
Kou does not eat much and so there is not much fat on her body, but she isn't bony either. Some would say she has the ideal figure for a women but Kou has never thought so. She has always believed her looks were a curse that attracted the exact attention she doesn't want. She would rather be known for her amazing staff wielding skills than for her killer curves.
"Don't ask me for any favors."
Brave | Loyal | Fierce | Snappy | Proud
Kou is a very.... Interesting girl to say the least, she pretends to be uninterested in everything and everyone but is really observing, making sure she has an exit and an escape plan; unfortunately it is what she has had to do to survive. Kou is a very sweet girl who has been taken advantage of one too many times, she has closed herself off to those around her and no longer shows her kind side believing that kindness is the equivalent to weakness. She isn't picky and if you give her something to eat and a place to sleep she will consider you an ally.
Likes
Staffs | Food | Warm Beds | Sunrises | Sleeping late
Dislikes
Traitors | Liars | Controlling People | Chocolate | Being Insulted
Habits
She bites her lower lip when thinking | Checking over her shoulder | Pacing
Flaws
Lacks social skills | Kou has a hard time staying in one place | There is a spot on her back that if you touch, she will collapse; it is her "off" button.
Abilties | Powers
Three seemingly random abilities have been bestowed upon Kou, the first and most complicated being Blood Manipulation. She can manipulate her's and others blood, Kou can stop the flow, weaponize it, and kill you from the inside.
The second of her abilities is Energy Usage, she can make barriers and shoot energy that comes from within her, barriers can be all sizes and take all different forms. It takes a lot out of her to make big ones though and the more energy she uses the longer it has to recharge.
Kou's third and final ability is Teleportation. With just a poof of gray mist she can disappear, however this ability comes and goes and sometimes Kou will teleport without meaning to. If she sneezes it can activate, when she's in the shower she'll suddenly find herself in Alaska. Kou can transport others with this ability, but they must be touching her, if they let go they can got lost in the in-between.
"The world is hard to change, it is much easier to shape it to your liking."
None, she doesn't really think about love and romance.
Character Opinions
Yuuto || To Kou he seems just a tad childish and vain, he holds himself in high regard but she doesn't think he is the mighty fox demon he pretends to be. His ears are cute though, they make him more tolerable somehow.
Akiko || She doesn't hate Akiko although she isn't particularly fond of being controlled, she knows Akiko is under orders and most likely is not possessing Kou's body for fun. If she was that would be sick and Kou would probably hate her.
Midora || He's a problem, at least to Kou he is. She doesn't take well to being ordered around, especially by someone younger than her.
History
Kou was not born, she simply came into existence, an anomaly in a world that considers things that are different "broken," she was never accepted by anyone. That is until the monks came along and adopted her into their temple. She learned patience and survival, how to wield a staff, how to bring peace. However the lifestyle did not suit her as she was a bit of a trouble maker from the start. They named her "Kou" for the great Buddhist Priestess from Nara. They recognized her as a beast of the Underworld, but they also saw the light in Kou. She, however, did not believe she could be good after learning about her heritage and although she did her best, trouble followed Kou wherever she went. Her terrible deeds attracted the attention of the two deities; Hachiman and Izanami. Kou fled from the Temple as They fought over her, each wanting to recruit the demon for their own agendas. In the end she escaped both but was soon captured by one of Hachiman's men. Kou was forced to work as War's errand girl, taking care of Hachiman's dirty work. She slowly moved up the ranks and went from taking orders to giving them and eventually Kou was sent on a very important mission to take a relic from Izanagi's garden. It was a suicide mission and Kou was mortally wounded. Hachiman knew the risks and so he asked Suijin, the deity of Water to suspend Kou in ice until her body could heal itself.
Nearly a thousand years later, in the period of 1908, Kou awoke.
Believing she was finally free, Kou attempted to leave the shrine of Suijin, but as she crossed the property line the Deity appeared and informed Kou that the deal he struck with Hachiman stated that she had to take care of the shrine for another ten years after her recovery. So Kou stayed and worked, sweeping the grounds and replanting lilies by the pond and when there wasn't work to do she practiced with her spirit sword or worked on using her abilities.
After her contract ended, Kou fled the shrine like it was on fire. A shrine maiden no more, her demon markings reappeared and she was free to do as she liked. At least until she met him. He was a handsome fellow, a Mage, and spotted Kou from a mile away. He stole her away from the shrine in Kyoto and took her to Hokaido, where WW2 was beginning to show it's face in the form of ration stamps and nuclear bombs.
Kou did everything in her power to escape the Mage, but he was powerful and had influence with high ranking people. She wasn't that old for a demon and because of the suspended animation, Kou was half the size she was supposed to be. But if the Monks had taught her one thing, it was patience and so Kou waited. It was almost a year before she found an opening in the form of a party.
Nizumi-chan fled through the back entrance of the large estate and went into hiding. She only ever went into town when she needed something and it worked at first, but eventually Kou's plan back fired when the hood of her jacket slipped off and her markings were visible. Kou was chased out of town with a showering of rocks and sticks.
It was another fifty years of isolation before she decided to check on the outside world and see if they had destroyed themselves. Kou traveled for two weeks to reach the edge of Tokyo and was shocked by the culture change. She felt like a child that had wandered into a candy shop, everything was shiny and new. People wore odd hair styles and bore markings on their bodies. No one was being ridiculed for being different! Now the size of a seventeen year old, Kou was not afraid of standing out and took off her jacket. Several people stopped to compliment her on her "tattoos" and although she had no idea what they were talking about, Kou thanked them and moved on. She got a job, bought an apartment, and lived a normal life for about a year until she was taken in by police for ditching school and tried to explain to them she hadn't been to school since she left the Monks' Temple nearly two thousand years ago.
They freaked out and sent Kou right to Survival Kit Academy where her freedom was once again, stolen from her.
Other
Her demon markings are interesting to look at, they begin at her heels and travel up the back of her legs to the small of her back. From there it spreads in a pattern up Kou's spine and to her neck where it finishes off with a swirl. Her tattoos used to resemble black flames but over time they have thinned out and now look more like vines with thorns that travel up her body. The markings spread when she uses her abilities and change depending on which one.