Post by Karri on Jul 7, 2014 3:04:33 GMT
Image by Shirogane Usagi
Name: Karri ((Pun off of Kali of Hindu fame))
Alias: N/A
Species: Demon
Gender: Female
Age: 21
History:
The Demon Realm... It is a place where the strong thrive while the weak either scrape to get by or perish. This is exactly how one demon in particular used to live her life.
Karri had always been a bit on the frail side. Her body had been feeble for as long as she could remember. She had been born to a pair of low class demons in servitude to a powerful lord. Seeing such a weak demon as nothing but dead weight, the lord only allowed her to stay until she had come of age. After that, she was tossed out to fend for herself.
The feeble demon spent most of her life after that travelling from place to place as a vagrant. She kept food in her belly by scrounging through the trash. It was truly a pitiful existence. However, Karri was used to it. It was either live like that or lay down to die; she had far too great of a will to live to consider the second option. Karri kept telling herself that one day all of this would change. She had no idea how right she was.
It all happened on one fateful evening during her travels. The scraps that Karri had been finding lately had been especially meager. Pain gripped her body as her stomach demanded food. However, she happened upon something that made her eyes widen. The weak demon had stumbled upon an extravagant looking manor with a large fruit tree growing in front of it.
Karri knew very well that the manor most likely belonged to some powerful demon that wouldn’t take kindly to trespassers. She couldn’t seem to focus on that though. She was far too busy gawking at the plentiful fruit that covered the tree’s branches. Karri had never seen anything like it before. Each piece of fruit was pale lavender in color and nearly the size of her head. They seemed to have a faint, white glow to them. Crossing her fingers that whoever owned the mansion was away, Karri scrambled over to the tree and plucked one of its mysterious fruits. Without even so much as a moment of hesitation, she sank her teeth into the flesh of the large fruit and greedily started to devour it.
The fruit in Karri’s hand was gone in a matter of seconds; she was left staring blankly at her empty hands. She felt incredibly strange. The fruit hadn’t tasted odd, just kind of sweet. It was the most she had eaten in one sitting in a while, but her stomach felt just as empty as before. How was that possible? Not sure what to make of it, Karri reached up and plucked a second piece of fruit from the strange tree. Just like the first, it was gone within moments.
Karri didn’t understand. She couldn’t imagine her stomach having the capacity to hold such a large amount of food. It felt like she hadn’t eaten anything at all! If anything, she was feeling more ravenous than before. The demon’s mind was becoming hazy. A single thought pushed itself to the front of her head. More... She needed more!
She grabbed for a third but froze solid when she saw a tall woman leaning against the trunk of the tree, watching her with an amused grin. A pair of black horns protruded from the woman’s forehead; her form was draped in exotic looking silks. Now that she had caught Karri’s attention, Karri could feel a huge amount of power emanating from the woman. Her first instinct was to bolt in the opposite direction. However, she couldn’t seem to move.
“My, my, my...” the woman began slowly. “It would appear that a rather pitiful fly has gone and gotten herself tangled up in the spider’s web.” All Karri could do was watch in terrified silence as the woman mocked her. As scared as she was though, the same thought from before wormed its way back into her head. She needed more of that fruit!
The woman in front of her watched as Karri’s gaze cautiously drifted back to the strange tree, and she let out a chuckle. “Hungry, are we? Such a weak energy signature coming from you... I’m sure you’re quite used to the feeling,” she commented with a wicked smile. She reached up and grabbed a piece of the fruit before tossing it to Karri. On any normal day, every fiber of the weak demon’s being would have been screaming at her to drop the fruit and flee. Karri was having trouble forming any type of rational thought at this point, unfortunately. She instead sank her teeth into the light purple fruit and consumed it.
The woman continued to observe the weaker demon as she wolfed down the produce. “Quite an interesting little treasure I’ve got growing in my garden, isn’t it?” she asked rhetorically. The woman had a twisted gleam in her eyes as she continued to toss Karri more fruit as soon as she finished each one. “Nobody I’ve ever talked to has seen one quite like it before. Not only that, but the fruit it bears has some... unusual properties to it. I’m sure you’re well aware of that by now.” The woman began to circle Karri, who was completely helpless to do anything more than devour every piece of fruit she was handed like some sort of mindless, bottomless pit. “What’s the matter?” she asked, her voice dripping in mock pity. “Still not full? I’m sure you were starving, but you’ll burst at this rate.”
The woman stopped directly behind Karri. “Well, you would if this were any ordinary fruit I suppose. You see, what you’re eating is something I like to call a Hell Peach. It dissolves into your system long before it ever reaches the stomach. When eaten, it imbues you with incredible strength. Unfortunately the side effects can be awfully nasty... That’s why even the strongest demons don’t dare eat more than one at a time,” she chuckled maliciously.
As if on cue, Karri froze in the middle of eating what was easily her eighth Hell Peach. Her body had gone completely numb. She no longer craved the half eaten fruit she was still holding in her hands. She wasn’t even scared of the demon that stood behind her anymore. No, she was far too distracted by the painful feeling of her mind unravelling itself. Still unable to move on her own and finding herself without the ability to scream, Karri collapsed to the ground and started going into uncontrollable spasms.
“Ah, there they are. Hell Peaches may make you stronger, but that power comes at a price. It does a bit of a number on your mind. If even the most powerful of demons experience problems from eating a single one, I’m curious to see how several of them affect such a low class demon. It sounds entertaining, no?” With that, more laughter filled the air.
Karri’s body continued to twitch and spasm, staring up at the sky with eyes that looked dead. It felt as if her mind was being torn into tiny little shreds that were haphazardly being sewn back together over and over again. She was rapidly forgetting who she was. Any thoughts she was having were all in gibberish. Karri’s vision was beginning to blur. The last thing she saw before she slipped from consciousness was the woman’s face looming above Karri’s. “Be a dear and give me a good show, would you?”
When Karri awoke, she found herself deposited in the human world. However, the demon that woke up was nothing like the demon that had fallen unconscious. Her mental state was unstable at best; she couldn’t remember a thing about herself before she first bit into that strange fruit. The funny thing about that though, was that she couldn’t care less. She was too busy marveling at the newfound strength that was coursing through her. With this new power of hers, she was determined to go have a bit of fun.
Starting Planet: Earth
Techniques:
[SU] Shape Shift
Karri can modify her from to appear as any adult humanoid. This includes changing her eye color, hair color and length, skin color, voice, figure, hiding her horns, ect... When in another from, her PL isn’t altered at all. The change is purely cosmetic.
[SU] Ki Sensing
Karri can detect the presence of others based on their PL. She can’t get an exact reading, but can tell if it’s close to hers(within 20%), weaker(between 20% and 60%. Can’t detect the PL if it’s below that), or stronger(anything higher than 20%).
[SU] Bukujutsu
Karri can fly by propelling herself through the air with her ki.
[N1] Ki Blade
Karri’s arm is engulfed in energy and forms itself into a blade. Any melee attack with that arm is treated as if she were holding a punching dagger. Requires constant stream of ki into that arm to maintain the blade, so can only be held for 2-3 posts at a time.
Items: 500 Zenni
One-Use Pod