Rita_Sjach

"If we are to make an alliance know this: I'd rather die with a sword in my chest than a knife in my back. . . Make of that what you will" *Rita hired as a bodyguard*

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Rita is a Warrior class five foot mouse anthro with blonde hair, white fur, and blue eyes. She is the primary collector of the Scorpio zodiac fragments, and conquered her planet with the deadly sin of pride.
Joining the Vedunny/Knowing ones, she's not only one of the four Elite warriors, but is ranked Number 1 in the ladder of power because of her ability to kill gods.

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Once a religious devotee to the god of all vermine, Nezukami from birth, as she got older she started to question what she was taught; her god was enforcing the food chain by telling them to cower and hide, and never fight back against the status quo.
One day though there was a famine, and so to not suffer starvation, Nezukami ordered the rodents to throw themselves at the hungry jaws of predators everywhere; at that point Rita went berserk and rebelled to the point of killing her goddess to steal her powers for her own.

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In current times, the planet she'd conquered was renamed to Gloria, and the planet's moon was renamed Cupido by it's own respective conqueror Veol_Athe.
Depending on the side you're on, Planet Gloria is a vibrant Utopia or an oppressive Plutocracy; the rodent race has risen to the top of the food chain, and all the predators are forced to obey them or face extinction.
Anyone can come visit the planet as it is still fully functional economically, but if you're a cat, a fox, a bird, or a snake; prepare to face prejudice and outright hatred if you try to assert yourself as a predator there.

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Shortly after joining the Kaluwa she became platonic friends with Veol_Athe and they can often be seen hunting together, a beautiful whirlwind composed of Rita's swordsmanship and Veol's black magic.
As an Elite warrior Rita is the captain of the guard, leading the forgotten masses in battle, and she has her own personal army called the Bubonic berserkers.
As a super villain she knows how to make a civilization crumble, and with Veol Athe as her Morale manager, she train soldiers to not rely on soldier serums to be deadly.

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Lastly Rita will defend Nanashii if called upon, but the mouse has her own agenda.
The only thing she and the changeling share in common is the belief of enforcing the truth.
To Rita, one of the forgotten truths is that vermin could be and still are a dangerous force in swarms or alone.
Thus she seeks to bring vermin to the top of the food chain across entire galaxies, leading the way with the power she attained from the predators she's supposed to fear and the god she was supposed to worship.

"A god must look her best among the mortal the common folk, a god will unrelenting power is nothing more than a brute."

She dresses based on the environment/climate:

In a more serious combat setting/in locations where her arms or legs might get scratched or injured/in the vicious sandstorms around her kingdom
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She wears a heavy red jacket with a white shirt underneath and leather leggings. On both the jacket and the leggings she has strings she can tug to keep air from blowing beneath and hitting her skin, still keeping her feet exposed.
She also has a pair of goggles to protect her eyes.
At her waist are two sashes/belts for her two daidao. And a thick leather belt worn from one shoulder to the opposite hip, used to support a much longer greatsword which she actually grips with her tail.
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In hotter more casual environments/ in battle other gods she dresses to show her regality and pride, dresses like a belly dancer

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She adornes herself with a lot of jewlwery rings, earing and bracelets specifically. Strapped to her waist is a whip with kunai on the end able to do cutting damage.

In gaining the complete Scorpio Zodiac she changed to match it.

Rita is fiercely independent. She's able to accomplish anything she puts her mind to and won't give up. She's perfectly suited to being on her own, living alone in her castle buried in the heart of the desert.
Unlike Veol, she's not a social butterflies, and actually actually prefers to live on her own since that way there is never any issue of who controls what at home; above all else she likes to be in control of both items and people.

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Unless hunting she doesn't actively go looking for trouble.
She's very formal and polite in a conversation, however when she tells people to leave and they don't she can get hostile very quickly, not liking it when people defy or ignore her.
The fastest way to get on her shit list is insulting her species or her appearance.

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Rita is a Social Darwinist, believing that vermin are the master race since her ancestors survived things her predators could not.
She treats people who she dislikes as inferiors, replacing her usual calm indifference with arrogance at best and disgust at worst.
She will interact and assist other species, but with her cunning if she ever witnesses weakness in her associates she won't hesitate to cut her losses and devour them. This is the main time she interacts and talks to weak humans; "They are not ripe and therefore killing them NOW would be pointless" she'd claim.

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All she cares about is getting power at any cost, and will kill anyone who has more power than she/ go anywhere powerful treasures can be found in a bid to make its/their power her own.
In this regard she's rather heartless only seeing people for their abilities and not their personalities and the lives they've led.

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In battle she's incredibly arrogant, fighting with half of her true power as she'll toss them her massive claymore, a weapon of divine power it's the only thing that can kill her permanently, daring them try prove they have the power to her place as Nezumikami.
sometimes she'll go so far as let herself be consumed, knowing she's as they say a disease ridden RAT , if they eat her it won't be without consequences

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She's not without mercy though as if her targets had children she will dump them in an orphanage; this only happens sometimes since young tender meat is hard to resist after awhile If a child has a delicious smell, she'll kidnap and bring back to her kingdom where her sisters and brothers will decide whether they will be enslaved or devoured.
People can argue this also shows her cruelty. . .and they would be right.

Powers

Unlike most people she doesn't have an elemental affinity.

Her main power is being able to infect people with deadly diseases when she bites them or scratches at them with the claws on her hands and feet.

As a new goddess among the mice she can control other rodents, and by biting victims turn them into mice as well, increasing her army.

Also she has a powerful sense of smell, able to "smell out power when it's ripe(unable to become any stronger)"

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Stagnation of Divinity

Rita rejects the idea of gods so hard that her very presence is toxic to them.

1. Clawing at their holy garments and infecting their body with her sinful toxins she can take away their immortality.

2. Also her heretical tongue can sway followers, teaching them the power of independence, the power of the people that gods want people to be ignorant to; in this regard gods that depend on faith can be weakened to the point they dissapear.

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Art of Cessation

The reason why she can be found carrying 9 rings and a whip when challenging people possibly stronger than her, she's the ultimate munchin, maximizing her best atrributes while minimizing those of her opponent.

1. What it says on the tin, she throws her rings at an opponent limiting their movement and powers until they have no choice but to submit.

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Possesion/Amalgamation of the soul

Upon becoming the new Nezumikami, Rita became aware of souls, specifically the souls of all vermin. Rita is a soul caster, and should any of her soldiers die during a battle she collect their souls and make sure their death is one of martyrdom.

1. She can line her blades with the souls of her comrades, keeping them sharp while also giving them he ability to chop up both the body and soul.

2. She can combine souls together to make grenades or sonic bombs,

3. This is also how she can anchor souls down, preventing them from fading if she knows there's a healthy rodent nearby she can transplant the soul into.

4. She can also split herself into smaller versions of her original self, becoming her own swarm.

5. Finally she can absorb other mice souls to become stronger and bigger; also she can create new subjects from these fused souls if she's eaten a big meal.

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Art of Sharpening

Her ultimate ability, and the reason why she's first in command under Nanashii, Rita Sjach is never without a weapon with this talent.

1. She can sharpen any object she finds so they can be used as a slashing or thrusting weapons

2. She used it to "sharpen" her mind, becoming super intelligent in her ability to cut out unneeded or useless parts of a plan for a future mission.

3. She sharpened the bone at the tip of her tail, able to thrust and lash out with it like a rapier to imale people who try to sneak up on her.

4. And lastly is her gift of sharpening other peoples' powers as well, this is while Veol isn't a sex crazed addiction, knowing exactly how to make people moan.

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Despite this she does specialize in something that spawned from magic.
Her ultimate power comes from the Scorpio zodiac fragment, one of thirteen crystals inhabiting the souls of the warriors/animals who waged the final battle against Elica's mother/the goddess of madness.

With it she became enlightened to a new swordsman style simply named scorpion style.

She dual wields two curved swords that are constantly wet with paralytics/poisons since the venom is actually in the sheaths.
She has less options for defense but the poison makes up for it, to slow her prey down.
When they're slow enough she'll finish them off with the massive claymore aptly called "the scorpions stinger", gripping it with her tail.

This is an allusion to how smaller scorpions have much more venom
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She also has nine rings which she uses to bind and ensnare her targets, these rings can be enhanced with the deadly sins of her fellow Kaluwa allies.
Combined with a whip she tries to shatter her would be predators spirit and mind.

This is an allusion to how bigger scorpions focus more on grabbing their prey to make up for having less venom
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However if she's disarmed she'll still not back down, actually at her most dangerous as she tried to bite and claw her enemy.
At most something will get infected and have to be amputated, permanently crippling her prey.

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While she claims to be a god she can only use the mouse gods power making her more like a queen; while she CAN bind and consume lesser deities, she lacks the power to permanently bind a true god like zeus or gaia.

When fighting predators she relies alot on speed, so if people can outmaneuver her they can usually beat her.

She's also incredibly power hungry, she'll do whatever it means to get power able to be manipulated using power as a bribe.
Taking apart in experiments which she think will grant her power upon success, can just as easily backfire. (like drinking a potion for growth and wind up shrinking instead.)

If she's shrunken down all of her poison's are weakened and the range of her power to control mice is cut in half.

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Rita Sjach started off as a rat with dreams and hopes, however the deity her kind worshiped scolded her for this.
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"you are all the same, uniform. No one should stand out, staying on the same path" the current deity preached to her followers.
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Rita frowned but tried to follow her teachings. But after a few years winter had come and food was scarce. The truly desperate rodents devoured their brothers and sisters.

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"Stop them! Why are you letting this happen?!" Rita cried out in front of the house the deity had lived in, but go no answer.
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Opening the door, it was revealed the mouse god had fled to the heavens; Rita and her people had been abandoned by their god.
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This truth broke her faith as she grabbed the statue that lay atop the altar and smashed it.
Inside was a purple jewel with the insignia of a scorpion on it.
Following instinct she swallowed it, feeling it dissolve in her stomach like a pill as power and knowledge filled her.

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She was no longer the same as her brethren, and pushing aside those that tried to eat her she ran out into the human settlements and like robin hood started to steal food so they could survive the winter.
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The mice while thankful were terrified, knowing Rita was doing the job their god was supposed to be doing.
Rita refused to speak of their deity, determined to do whatever it took for them to survive.
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She continued to steal in the dead of night, making sure not to get caught; however, one time she was followed and scientists captured the colony along with Rita.
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She was kept under lock and key like the others, not thinking of fighting back against the humans.
She had to suffer and watch as her kin were abused physically and sexually, their deity also preaching they "Know their place in the food chain as well as society." The fact mice were inferior to everyone else they were willing to accept being enslaved and killed at the human's whims.

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Rita hated this, once again their deity was indirectly getting in the way of a simple idea to escape.
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When it was Rita's turn to be broken in, they started with sexually abuse the mayor of the town she had been robbing demanding a blowjob from the rat before reclining in a chair, fully erect.
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She immediately turned the tables on him, biting his penis off before also biting him on the neck.
She tried to make them come with her, but seeing her attack the human, they were terrified, refusing to go with her any longer.
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Rita was completely furious now as she returned to the village on her own to find the deity waiting for her

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Deity: I bet you think you're rather special beause of the things you've done. The only thing you've accomplished in is agitating the humans and disrupting the peace.

Rita: And yet with this disruption I've gained power and instilled fear in my enemies! You're not a god to me, you're nothing but a poser.
I'M more of a god than you are since I've done things to try and better our existence!

Deity: You better watch your tongue, before I rip it out! Don't you see? You've tasted sin, you've become prideful. You think to ascend beyond your place in this world?
Mark my words: if you climb too high, when you finally get knocked from your perch the fall will kill you

Rita: That won't matter, for I will climb to the heavens where NO ONE can knock me down!

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The deity grinned at this and tore off her skin in one clean sheet, revealing herself to be a demon and with that casting the heretic into hell. Eating the deity's skin Rita gained her the powers of the goddess and helped her claw her way out of hell, but not before suffering through hell and gaining a ring from each ring of hell.

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With nine rings enhanced with binding powers in her arsenal she was set free, now a demon.
She had started below the bottom floor, now all she cared about was climbing into heaven where she'd finished her meal of the mouse deity and become a true god powers and all.