Sakido_Akizumi

Age: 23 (109 in human years)
Age she became a yokai: 22.5

Height: 5.2 feet

Elemental affinity: Wind

Gift from the divined: Divine wind AKA essence of autumn

Final Fantasy Class: Red mage

Skills: Youkai Slaying, Gardening, Farming

Religion/ Teachings of her shrine: Shintoism

Likes: Cool mornings and cooler nights, green tea, reading

Dislikes: Slacking off, eating too much red meat, overhunting, border collies

Weapons: Ofuda (prayer slips), Rosary beads, and Senbon needles

Friends: Siarah_Ayaka and YukiAnna_ObakeNeko

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Overall facts

Name: Sakido (Zuhnd) Akizumi

Sakido is a lynx with brown fur, various black spots and stripes and orange eyes. She was drawn into the land Setsubun when she prayed before the Aki shrine, on her side of the rift a ruined mess, to the dieing Autumn goddess within for better luck finding a job.

The goddess hearing her, gave her exactly what she wanted, employing her as the shrine maiden of the Aki shrine before transforming her into a lynx, the symbol of autumn imprinted on her belly and gohei wand.

However the one thing Sakido didn't factor in, was the fact the forest on the other side of the dimensional rift was thick with demonic energy. For 6 months she was sick, unaware until it was too late, that the sickness was her body drawing in the demonic energy; despite being a shrine maiden she's also a demon/yokai now as well.

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Sakido's shrine follows shintoism or the way to god.
Doing her research she follows shintoism as a way of finding balance within herself and awareness of self.
The main shinto ethic she follows is purity. In eating the foods of her harvest and performing good deeds, she's trying to achieve purity of the body and mind.
Ironically she tries to turn a blind eye to this ethic when her yokai blood is brought up, and gets rather tense when approached by other yokai in the forest, essentially her neighbors now.

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As the Shrine maiden of autumn the season follows her wherever she goes; this is usually associated by cool breezes, the leaves changing colors, and spirits becoming active to the point of interacting with the living.
She's also the most well versed in hosting parties and festivals for people in the village, and is the main one who can perform rituals to expel spirits or act as a medium to let spirits converse with the living.

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Following Shintoism she can use these shrine maiden rituals to communicate with the kami/( kind spirits that care about human well being) and sometimes persuade them to perform divine intervention when she herself, or a human coming to her for help, is about to do something incredibly dangerous.

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Finally like the other shrine maidens she has a beast mode/yokai trance, Sakido's beast mode represents PRIMAL INSTINCT, and as such it can flare up without much warning.

You see, as she struggles with the duties as a shrine maiden, sworn to protect humans; she's doing so at the expense of her yokai habits and needs, specifically to prey upon these same humans. When it finally reaches a boiling point, she rips off her clothes, tossing away her divine weapons, and slinks off into the woods as she becomes more yokai like in swelling to three times her size and dropping down on all fours.

DO NOT SPEAK, DO NOT RUN, AND DO NOT STARE. She will immediately attack, pretend you did not see her at all and walk away calmly, and most times you'll survive to alarm the village of her current mental instability.

the only way to forcibly snap her out of the trance is for her to make a kill with her own two claws, or for her to be sealed using her own prayer slips to the point she's paralyzed.

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Personality:

Yukianna, Siarah, and Sakido personality wise make up the hecate sisters trio (there is the maiden, the matron, and the crone).

Sakido is the crone; while not sharp tongued to the point of cruelty like Siarah Ayaka, she snarks alot more than her. She's also very bitter and unsentimental to people who have burned her in the past.

She asks politely for donations and does many favors to be given them, but if all else fails she forewarns people (which some people have guessed to be a THREAT) "If I don't eat, the yokai will." When bad things DO happen and they call out for help Sakido will feign weakness, letting them get eaten and will nonchalantly pilfer the money from the corpses remains afterwards.

In the end she's like a goddess herself; she can be very kind and benevolent, but if you try to cheat or make a fool of her; the wrath of a god will be the least of your worries.

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Talents

Kizekaze / Wind miracles- The ultimate strength of having the essence of autumn. She can use the autumn breeze and by making it push against certain opposing forces the next wind attack she uses is boosted immensely to do incredible feats. Once she's learned 7 miracles she will be able to return to her own dimension. The problem is all these attacks are one part shrine maiden magic and one part yokai energy, needing to find a balance between both worlds. (more can be added as she meets new people)

1. "Wind that parts the waters"

2. "Wind that heralds misfortune/(rain)"

3. "Wind that disperses despair"

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Bountiful harvest- A power she can use the best in autumn, as a shrine maiden she can speed up the growth of fruit and vegetables. She'll often sell produce to the people in order to earn donations for the aki shrine.

Body of clay: She's hypermobile/double jointed, able to bend and flex her body in unique ways. It makes dodging attacks much easier, and can turn a bad outcome into an advantage.

The beast within: When she gathers too much demonic energy she's almost instantly snapped into her beast most / yokai trance. she becomes more like a monster, using the wind in reckless ways in pursuit of prey.

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In combat she uses the Divine wind to grant her the ability of flight, and tries to whip people about with that same wind.

1. Against yokai/monsters she relies heavily on her shrine maiden weapons, prayer slips and senbon needles to paralyze and weaken them to the point she can seal the beast in a weaker form.

2. Against humans though she fights more defensively, using shao-lin kungfu that results in short quick jabs and kicks to deflect those of her attacker and weaken them to the point they stop fighting.

Her weakness though is that her defenses are incredibly weak, and she can even be harmed by her own shrine maiden atacks if they were reflected back at her. Her biggest flaw though is "No matter how hard the wind howls, the mountains will not bow to it". A person who can tank her attacks and come at her with overwhelming power can take her down easily.

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