Post by ghostmytoast on Oct 18, 2023 2:13:49 GMT
--General--
Full Name: Nekomata, The Split-Tailed Cat
Alias: Shinobu
Age: Oh gosh, who knows? A good several centuries or so.
Residence: Very few have this knowledge. If you need to find my lay line in the woods just outside of Pulic you will have to search for it or get VERY lucky… or unlucky… who’s to say? It is lovely though! A beautiful giant oak surrounded by lush forest and an overgrown graveyard full of forgotten souls.
Gender: Male
Species: Nekomata
Alignment: Neutral
Faction: Me, Myself, and I
--Appearance--
Picture:
Physical Description: Shinobu’s main cat form is just that, a normal sized black cat with two tails and an odd aura. His monstrous form is about six feet long and 4 feet tall. He stays on all fours in this form and looks like a large, terrifying sabretooth tiger. This form is also pure black with some glowing purple markings all over his body. His fangs and claws are massive and sharp, looking just as menacing as he is dangerous. Shinobu’s humanoid form has snow white hair and golden, slit eyes when in his more humanoid form, though his ears and tails are pure black. He is very unassuming in appearance. He clocks in at about 5”9 and is very slender and fair. He comes off more wise and elegant than threatening or powerful. Looks, however, can be deceiving.
Clothing: When taking his humanoid form (which is most of the time), Shinobu has a beautiful, elaborate, and flamboyant outfit that was once made for him in exchange for some information long ago. He loves it very much. Even in his cat form there are two bows with bells tied to his tails to go with the outfit.
Abilities
Physical Powers
Ability name - Claws
Body part – Hands/Claws
Ability description – Shinobu, in his humanoid form, can make his nails extend and grow sharp to more closely resemble the claws he has in his cat form
Ability name - Fangs
Body part – Teeth
Ability description – Similar to his claws, Shinobu can also lengthen and sharpen his teeth to be closer to that of his feline form.
Ability name - Flexibility
Body part – Full Body
Ability description – Everyone knows cats are liquids. Shinobu is no exception, even in his humanoid form. (Please note he is not literally a liquid.)
Ability name – Animal Understanding (Cat)
Ability description – As a cat himself, Shinobu can communicate with any feline just as he could a human or monster of intelligence. He can strike deals with them or ask favors of them, and will do so if he feels it could be enjoyable. Cats will sometimes offer him things for favors and he treats them just like humans. Because of this, cats are considered sacred to members of his cult and they will also treat them more like humans than animals. He can’t control them unless they are dead and he brings them back to life. As of yet he hasn’t come to hate a cat enough to do that to them, but never say never. He can only talk to and convince them.
Spiritual Powers
Ability name – Reanimating the dead
Ability description – Shinobu can bring back the deceased as his puppets, making them do his bidding. He gets them fresh and freezes the decaying process so they remain looking almost entirely alive, no rot or decay about them. Only a glassy, distant stare in the eyes and their inability to speak gives them away.
Ability drawbacks – The walking dead are like plants. They need a constant flow of energy from either Shinobu himself or other deceased animals, monsters, or people to maintain. Without it, they will rapidly decay and become the corpse they were supposed to be.
Ability name – Spirit Fire
Ability description – Shinobu can summon the residual essence left of the deceased in the form of a small, blue flame. When touched it will replay the spirit’s last moments.
Ability drawbacks – They can’t do anything else, just show the last few moments before they died. There are also many of them that have just gathered around his leyline that he can’t seem to get rid of. Every so often he or one of his corpses will activate one by accident.
Ability name – Illusion
Ability description – Shinobu can form hyper realistic visual and auditory illusions of just about anything he has seen before.
Ability drawbacks – Illusions are just that, illusions. They can not hurt or touch anything. In fact, a single touch will brake it and reveal the false vision for what it is.
Ability name – Telepathic Link
Ability description – By taking in a drop of someone’s blood, Shinobu can for a link with someone in order to have a telepathic connection. This allows him to communicate with that person via the mind link.
Ability drawbacks – The farther away the person is the harder it is to activate the link and the fuzzier the connection gets.
Ability name – Transformation
Ability description – Shinobu has 3 separate forms that he can shift between at will. His main form is his smallest, appearing as no more than a small house cat with 2 tails. His monstrous form is a large, black, saber-tooth tiger with massive teeth and claws. He can use it to quickly overpower an opponent if needed. His humanoid form is mostly human with cat ears and two tails.
Ability drawbacks – His main form is his weakest one. He is literally just a cat in that form with no extra strength. His humanoid form takes some energy to maintain, but not much from years of practice. His monstrous form takes quite a bit of energy to maintain, he is only able to hold it for a couple hours at a time before needing to rest for a full twelve hours to regain his strength.
--Important Information--
Personality: Shinobu is always in it for the fun of the game. He wants to be entertained, and will do whatever he thinks will give that to him. He will help people. He will hurt people. He will kill people. He will lay people. He will do all these things with monsters too. If it seems like the outcome, or the actual thing itself, will be fun he will follow it. Anything for a good show! And for someone as old, wise, and powerful as he is, plenty of people try to seek him out and appease his desires.
Likes: Anything fun! Unless you mean sexual preferences, Shinobu finds men FAR more interesting, but a woman from time to time to spice things up is fine and well. He enjoys people who are willing to go along with his antics, and ESPECIALLY enjoys like minded people who will join him and have fun alongside him. His favorite physical gifts are expensive wines or spirits, extravagant meals, and fancy clothing for his dolls. He loves to play house with them. His FAVORITE gift, though, is good company. He wants to be entertained. If someone puts on a good show for him or makes for good conversation, that’s his favorite thing of all. These sorts of people can easily win his everlasting favor. He has even found love this way once or twice, and treats these people VERY well. He even gives them a special burial within his graveyard if he likes someone enough, and ensures that their final wishes are met and their final moments are comfortable. He can be just as kind and giving as he is ruthless and horrifying.
Dislikes: Boredom is the main thing. However, Shinobu’s biggest pet peeve are those who try to out smart him or beat him at his own game. He is the player, never the played. If someone tries to fool him, they best think twice if they don’t want to be another puppet in his collection. Then there are his minor pet peeves that can simply get someone eaten. Those who are boisterous, overly cocky, challenge him outwardly, and believe it or not, those who do the same to other people. Shinobu has respect for those who are strong but reserved and smart about it. He has distain for those who think they are strong and loud about it. So he will actually go after those sorts of people whether they are threatening him or other people. He doesn’t like the weak trying to bark up massive trees, or the strong trying to kick puppies. People should stay in their weight classes. After all, that’s what makes for the most entertaining fights.
Strengths: Shinobu is cunning and calculative to a scary degree. He will stalk and toy with people to get the most out enjoyment possible out of them. He is extremely good at deception and has a keen eye for when something will or won’t end in his favor. He knows better than to pick fights or toy with things he can’t win against. All this plus is spiritual and physical strengths, along with age and experience, make him a force to be reckoned with.
Weaknesses: Shinobu’s greatest flaw is his impatience. He gets bored so easily that he will sometimes choose entertainment over safety if he has gone long enough without anything to do. If something sounds fun enough, he will follow it without hesitation, even if he knows better. He’s cocky and tends to think he can figure ways out of situations even if he goes in knowing they won’t be easy to get out of. This is only for games of wit though. He knows better than to pick physical fights up the ladder. That is one of his biggest pet peeves after all. Toying with people though? He’s fine being a hypocrite for that.
Skills: Sewing, Cooking, Fighting, Hunting… you name it Shinobu has probably done it at least once.
Talents: Acrobatics, contortion, singing, playing the harp
Motto: If it’s fun, why not?
Goal: Simply to live life as I feel like it.
Music Video: [videosize="small"][/video]
History: Shinobu has been around far longer than any creature has the right to be. Who knows if he was born, created, or just appeared one day? He certainly doesn’t. All he knows is that life is sooooo dull. The wars in the past were entertaining to watch while they were around. From time to time people or monsters or both will do something that’s worth keeping an eye on. However, sometimes you just have to search for your own fun.
That’s what Shinobu has been doing his whole life, just looking to be entertained. When you’ve lived as long as he has that’s rather difficult though. There is only so much he can do alone in his hideaway. He found a graveyard layline MANY years ago out in the forests of Pulic to call his home. A beautiful, massive oak big enough to be hollowed out and turned into a lovely, cozy home. The graves around it provide wonderful energy, and he can just keep added to them if he needs or wants.
But that gets old after a while. So, what is a monster to do other than spread rumors about himself and see who takes the bait. A good couple hundred years ago, the cat monster assisted a human by giving her information that no one else could obtain from the past. In exchange, she made him a beautiful outfit to wear and flaunt around. He let her go and spread the word about him. Stories spread of a monster who can grant you things like ancient knowledge, primal powers, or the chance to speak with a lost loved one for one last time. Not all of these stories were true, but he would play along with some of them for the hell of it from time to time.
However, not everyone was as entertaining as she was. The rumors quickly became of a fickle monster who may help you if he likes you, or kill you if he doesn’t. Offer the right price? Catch him on a good day? Do something he likes or finds amusing? He may just give you the time of day… or his full power and no mercy. It all depends. The rumors spread less and less over the years so that only a select few could find him. Most people believe his tale is just that, folklore to scare children away from going into the forests at night and accidentally stumbling into his graveyard. But those who know the truth can find him easily, and pray that he is in a good mood when they do.
Over the years as he became more and more of a myth rather than an entity, a religion was started aroudn him as a wish granting god. It was started by a yakuza family as a means to extort people. Intrigued, he watched for a few decades. As the man who started it grew into his later years, SHinobu showed himself to him. The man begged for his life, thinking that he would be killed for using Shinobu as a means to an end. On the contrary, he offered a partnership. Shinobu could get gifts and entertainment by watching the cult and their antics, and the group that started it can continue getting money from their cult members. They can even take the children of those who wrong him enough to die as "recruits" for their means. It was a match made in hell, and Shinbu was all for it. The cult today is a massive religion that many people in Pulic follow, and the cat monster enjoys watching and even sometimes helping or harming those within it. The yakuza family still runs it generations later, their heads being some of the very few people who know his reality.
Stats
Level: 5
Strength: 4
Speed: 7
Durability: 5
Skill: 5
Int: 10
Mystic: 6
Channeling: 8
Full Name: Nekomata, The Split-Tailed Cat
Alias: Shinobu
Age: Oh gosh, who knows? A good several centuries or so.
Residence: Very few have this knowledge. If you need to find my lay line in the woods just outside of Pulic you will have to search for it or get VERY lucky… or unlucky… who’s to say? It is lovely though! A beautiful giant oak surrounded by lush forest and an overgrown graveyard full of forgotten souls.
Gender: Male
Species: Nekomata
Alignment: Neutral
Faction: Me, Myself, and I
--Appearance--
Picture:
Physical Description: Shinobu’s main cat form is just that, a normal sized black cat with two tails and an odd aura. His monstrous form is about six feet long and 4 feet tall. He stays on all fours in this form and looks like a large, terrifying sabretooth tiger. This form is also pure black with some glowing purple markings all over his body. His fangs and claws are massive and sharp, looking just as menacing as he is dangerous. Shinobu’s humanoid form has snow white hair and golden, slit eyes when in his more humanoid form, though his ears and tails are pure black. He is very unassuming in appearance. He clocks in at about 5”9 and is very slender and fair. He comes off more wise and elegant than threatening or powerful. Looks, however, can be deceiving.
Clothing: When taking his humanoid form (which is most of the time), Shinobu has a beautiful, elaborate, and flamboyant outfit that was once made for him in exchange for some information long ago. He loves it very much. Even in his cat form there are two bows with bells tied to his tails to go with the outfit.
Abilities
Physical Powers
Ability name - Claws
Body part – Hands/Claws
Ability description – Shinobu, in his humanoid form, can make his nails extend and grow sharp to more closely resemble the claws he has in his cat form
Ability name - Fangs
Body part – Teeth
Ability description – Similar to his claws, Shinobu can also lengthen and sharpen his teeth to be closer to that of his feline form.
Ability name - Flexibility
Body part – Full Body
Ability description – Everyone knows cats are liquids. Shinobu is no exception, even in his humanoid form. (Please note he is not literally a liquid.)
Ability name – Animal Understanding (Cat)
Ability description – As a cat himself, Shinobu can communicate with any feline just as he could a human or monster of intelligence. He can strike deals with them or ask favors of them, and will do so if he feels it could be enjoyable. Cats will sometimes offer him things for favors and he treats them just like humans. Because of this, cats are considered sacred to members of his cult and they will also treat them more like humans than animals. He can’t control them unless they are dead and he brings them back to life. As of yet he hasn’t come to hate a cat enough to do that to them, but never say never. He can only talk to and convince them.
Spiritual Powers
Ability name – Reanimating the dead
Ability description – Shinobu can bring back the deceased as his puppets, making them do his bidding. He gets them fresh and freezes the decaying process so they remain looking almost entirely alive, no rot or decay about them. Only a glassy, distant stare in the eyes and their inability to speak gives them away.
Ability drawbacks – The walking dead are like plants. They need a constant flow of energy from either Shinobu himself or other deceased animals, monsters, or people to maintain. Without it, they will rapidly decay and become the corpse they were supposed to be.
Ability name – Spirit Fire
Ability description – Shinobu can summon the residual essence left of the deceased in the form of a small, blue flame. When touched it will replay the spirit’s last moments.
Ability drawbacks – They can’t do anything else, just show the last few moments before they died. There are also many of them that have just gathered around his leyline that he can’t seem to get rid of. Every so often he or one of his corpses will activate one by accident.
Ability name – Illusion
Ability description – Shinobu can form hyper realistic visual and auditory illusions of just about anything he has seen before.
Ability drawbacks – Illusions are just that, illusions. They can not hurt or touch anything. In fact, a single touch will brake it and reveal the false vision for what it is.
Ability name – Telepathic Link
Ability description – By taking in a drop of someone’s blood, Shinobu can for a link with someone in order to have a telepathic connection. This allows him to communicate with that person via the mind link.
Ability drawbacks – The farther away the person is the harder it is to activate the link and the fuzzier the connection gets.
Ability name – Transformation
Ability description – Shinobu has 3 separate forms that he can shift between at will. His main form is his smallest, appearing as no more than a small house cat with 2 tails. His monstrous form is a large, black, saber-tooth tiger with massive teeth and claws. He can use it to quickly overpower an opponent if needed. His humanoid form is mostly human with cat ears and two tails.
Ability drawbacks – His main form is his weakest one. He is literally just a cat in that form with no extra strength. His humanoid form takes some energy to maintain, but not much from years of practice. His monstrous form takes quite a bit of energy to maintain, he is only able to hold it for a couple hours at a time before needing to rest for a full twelve hours to regain his strength.
--Important Information--
Personality: Shinobu is always in it for the fun of the game. He wants to be entertained, and will do whatever he thinks will give that to him. He will help people. He will hurt people. He will kill people. He will lay people. He will do all these things with monsters too. If it seems like the outcome, or the actual thing itself, will be fun he will follow it. Anything for a good show! And for someone as old, wise, and powerful as he is, plenty of people try to seek him out and appease his desires.
Likes: Anything fun! Unless you mean sexual preferences, Shinobu finds men FAR more interesting, but a woman from time to time to spice things up is fine and well. He enjoys people who are willing to go along with his antics, and ESPECIALLY enjoys like minded people who will join him and have fun alongside him. His favorite physical gifts are expensive wines or spirits, extravagant meals, and fancy clothing for his dolls. He loves to play house with them. His FAVORITE gift, though, is good company. He wants to be entertained. If someone puts on a good show for him or makes for good conversation, that’s his favorite thing of all. These sorts of people can easily win his everlasting favor. He has even found love this way once or twice, and treats these people VERY well. He even gives them a special burial within his graveyard if he likes someone enough, and ensures that their final wishes are met and their final moments are comfortable. He can be just as kind and giving as he is ruthless and horrifying.
Dislikes: Boredom is the main thing. However, Shinobu’s biggest pet peeve are those who try to out smart him or beat him at his own game. He is the player, never the played. If someone tries to fool him, they best think twice if they don’t want to be another puppet in his collection. Then there are his minor pet peeves that can simply get someone eaten. Those who are boisterous, overly cocky, challenge him outwardly, and believe it or not, those who do the same to other people. Shinobu has respect for those who are strong but reserved and smart about it. He has distain for those who think they are strong and loud about it. So he will actually go after those sorts of people whether they are threatening him or other people. He doesn’t like the weak trying to bark up massive trees, or the strong trying to kick puppies. People should stay in their weight classes. After all, that’s what makes for the most entertaining fights.
Strengths: Shinobu is cunning and calculative to a scary degree. He will stalk and toy with people to get the most out enjoyment possible out of them. He is extremely good at deception and has a keen eye for when something will or won’t end in his favor. He knows better than to pick fights or toy with things he can’t win against. All this plus is spiritual and physical strengths, along with age and experience, make him a force to be reckoned with.
Weaknesses: Shinobu’s greatest flaw is his impatience. He gets bored so easily that he will sometimes choose entertainment over safety if he has gone long enough without anything to do. If something sounds fun enough, he will follow it without hesitation, even if he knows better. He’s cocky and tends to think he can figure ways out of situations even if he goes in knowing they won’t be easy to get out of. This is only for games of wit though. He knows better than to pick physical fights up the ladder. That is one of his biggest pet peeves after all. Toying with people though? He’s fine being a hypocrite for that.
Skills: Sewing, Cooking, Fighting, Hunting… you name it Shinobu has probably done it at least once.
Talents: Acrobatics, contortion, singing, playing the harp
Motto: If it’s fun, why not?
Goal: Simply to live life as I feel like it.
Music Video: [videosize="small"][/video]
History: Shinobu has been around far longer than any creature has the right to be. Who knows if he was born, created, or just appeared one day? He certainly doesn’t. All he knows is that life is sooooo dull. The wars in the past were entertaining to watch while they were around. From time to time people or monsters or both will do something that’s worth keeping an eye on. However, sometimes you just have to search for your own fun.
That’s what Shinobu has been doing his whole life, just looking to be entertained. When you’ve lived as long as he has that’s rather difficult though. There is only so much he can do alone in his hideaway. He found a graveyard layline MANY years ago out in the forests of Pulic to call his home. A beautiful, massive oak big enough to be hollowed out and turned into a lovely, cozy home. The graves around it provide wonderful energy, and he can just keep added to them if he needs or wants.
But that gets old after a while. So, what is a monster to do other than spread rumors about himself and see who takes the bait. A good couple hundred years ago, the cat monster assisted a human by giving her information that no one else could obtain from the past. In exchange, she made him a beautiful outfit to wear and flaunt around. He let her go and spread the word about him. Stories spread of a monster who can grant you things like ancient knowledge, primal powers, or the chance to speak with a lost loved one for one last time. Not all of these stories were true, but he would play along with some of them for the hell of it from time to time.
However, not everyone was as entertaining as she was. The rumors quickly became of a fickle monster who may help you if he likes you, or kill you if he doesn’t. Offer the right price? Catch him on a good day? Do something he likes or finds amusing? He may just give you the time of day… or his full power and no mercy. It all depends. The rumors spread less and less over the years so that only a select few could find him. Most people believe his tale is just that, folklore to scare children away from going into the forests at night and accidentally stumbling into his graveyard. But those who know the truth can find him easily, and pray that he is in a good mood when they do.
Over the years as he became more and more of a myth rather than an entity, a religion was started aroudn him as a wish granting god. It was started by a yakuza family as a means to extort people. Intrigued, he watched for a few decades. As the man who started it grew into his later years, SHinobu showed himself to him. The man begged for his life, thinking that he would be killed for using Shinobu as a means to an end. On the contrary, he offered a partnership. Shinobu could get gifts and entertainment by watching the cult and their antics, and the group that started it can continue getting money from their cult members. They can even take the children of those who wrong him enough to die as "recruits" for their means. It was a match made in hell, and Shinbu was all for it. The cult today is a massive religion that many people in Pulic follow, and the cat monster enjoys watching and even sometimes helping or harming those within it. The yakuza family still runs it generations later, their heads being some of the very few people who know his reality.
Stats
Level: 5
Strength: 4
Speed: 7
Durability: 5
Skill: 5
Int: 10
Mystic: 6
Channeling: 8
