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'Aha~! I need more energy, please! If you hold still, I won't take all of it. Just enough to survive~'
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A shikigami is a small spirit, summoned by an onmyōji (a practitioner of onmyōdŁE if you are unaware) to perform many duties similar to those a western familiar might... though much more powerful, in most cases. Some shikigami could be commanded to cause bodily harm or death!
Hisomu is... was... not one of those shikigami, though. This little fluffball was called up by her master to perform menial household chores... dusting, sweeping, the occasional bit of cooking. And like all shikigami, she took to it with gusto, happy to please her master.
But it turns out her master was not a kind man. Not evil, perhaps, but not a paragon either. He constantly abused her, and the other shikigami, yelling at them when they got things wrong, or giving them a swat if they were in the way. At one point, Hisomu dropped his dinner on the tatami, and he swore that she would die within days, as he would ban her from recieving more of his power.
This would've been the end of her story, had she not been a resourceful and stubborn little thing. After being basically abandoned, she held no real love for her master anymore... as he slept, she crawled to his futon and quickly sucked his energy free, then devoured him! It immobilized her small frame for three full days as she digested his wriggling form... but, it also gave her the energy to continue! At least, for a while...
Hisomu has to keep consuming, now... warm, struggling bodies fall to her gut and hair on a constant basis as she continues to live on. She's hundreds of years old, now... and she's likely not going to stop anytime soon!
Eating lots of folks over the centuries, and absorbing their energy, has increased her power exponentially! Hisomu is small, but she has the power equivalent of a demigoddess now... not that she particularly realizes this. She does know, however, that she's capable of defeating mortal soldiers all day and night... which she's done before, if only to consume their essence.
Her standard size is about the size of a small doll... one and a half feet. She can increase her size up to a towering four foot five when she decides to, however! She can shrink, as well, but rarely does this...
Hisomu is also a bit lucky, in that devouring all of those folks over the centuries has taught her quite a bit! As she's a magical being, she can use magic and trickery... and every time she eats someone that knows spells, she learns them. Which means that little Hisomu is a scary spellcaster, and can cause all kinds of mischief and damage. But usually, she just uses her magic to change her clothes. Like, into a ninja outfit! Shikigami, nin nin~!
As we've said, Hisomu eats folks. She can take them a few different ways... but, her primary (and only -listed-) methods are orally, with her hair, and with her bow.
Orally is simple. She just stretches her tiny body around them and more or less shrinks them to a manageable size -as- she eats them. She comes out super-pudgy, but this way she can manage anything! Even big stuff~
Hair is simple, too. She's got a lot of it. It slurps, wraps, tangles, cocoons, and otherwise surrounds the victim. Then they're absorbed, or digested~
Her bow is a little more interesting. Long, silky red ribbons ensnare and trap the foe, then slowly and gently grind them down into pudgemass for the tiny spirit girl. It feels good, though, we promise.
She'll eat most things that are near her, if they've got enough energy to make it worth the energy she expends to gulp them down. It's rare that she wastes energy to bring them back afterwards, unless they've befriended her. If you're her friend, she'd die for you. Without a second thought. D'aww~
What's that thing she's sitting on? Is it a ring? A brutal instrument of skull-crushing doom? Yes. Yes to both. Want to know more, you'll have to ask her.
All of these listings are assuming that Hisomu is a free agent. If the little shikigami picks a master, she will likely become even stronger! And she'll also share that power with her master... making that person stronger as well! Of course, she'll still gobble her master... with gusto, even. If she has a master, and therefore a renewable energy source... she can gobble all she wants. Scandalous~