Suzume Hamasaki

Codename: Mozu
Nickname(s): Lazy bones(general), Suzu, Suzu-chan, Shimamoto Sumiye(Human), Big horn(Derogatorily irritating), Demon
Age: 24
Race:Hanyō
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Is this a canon?: OC Donut steal.



Hair Color: Black(Human)/Teal-green(Half-oni)/White(Oni)
Eye Color: Teal-Green(Human)/Amber-gold(Half-oni)/Black and yellow(Oni)
Gender:Female
Height: 5'10"(Human)/6'9"(Half-oni)/7'6"(Oni)
Weight: 110lbs(Human/240lbs(Half-oni)/350lbs(Oni)
Other Traits:



Main Power Origins: Supernatural/Magical

Powers
Oni physiology - Suzume has demon's blood running through her veins, and some may be wondering, what kind of demons blood. Why, that of the Japanese oni's of course. The blood of a red oni, specifically. Reputed as being the strong brutish types, Suzume's strength is about five tons normally and her durability, somewhere akin to ten tons. Her constitution is also likewise sturdy, possessing an otherworldly resistance to all mundane viral and bacterial pathogens, drugs, poisons, and venoms. Including, a rather voracious ability to eat and digest just about anything she can reasonably get a good bite of, including at least one steel sword blade in her teens. And similarly to some other half-demons, she can transform. Assuming the form of a red-oni. In this form, she gains nearly a foot in height, a second horn grows from her head complimenting the other, four symmetrical canines jut out from the corners of her lips, like tusks, while a third eye opens on her forehead and her fingers grow long, black, iron hard claws. In this form, her physical strength and durability doubles to ten tons and twenty tons.

Enhanced swordsmanship - From the moment she could hold a sword, Suzume showed an innate aptitude, a natural instinct for the ways of the sword that bordered on the supernatural. For example, the way she could channel qi through the blade to enhance the sharpness or impact force upwards of fifteen tons, or, the hardness to turn away a fifteen ton blow. Even project the cutting edge as a teal shaped wave that can cut, pulverize or shear at a distance. Which is nothing to say of her finesse or speed. Utilizing sword drawing techniques, she can accelerate her sword to speeds of 100 mph, but drops to 65 mph once drawn and utilized as normal.

Astral vision - See the unseen. Suzume can see past our world, has been able to since she was a kid. She can see ghosts and spirits, or view a persons astral aura. Even see past illusions. It let's her tell mundane and magical individuals apart, doesn't tell her what kind of magic or power they have, just let's her know there's magic afoot. She can communicate with the ghosts she sees, can relay messages and often times, helps any ghosts pass on by fulfilling any unfinished business they might have on earth.

Ki manipulation - Everyone is born with two sets of Ki, the one that represents your physical life and one that you freely accumulate through life. Think of it like a well, or in Suzume's case, a pond attached to a flowing stream filled with life and vigor. She can utilize this ki for a variety of purposes. One she's found useful, is healing wounds. Her own or others. The greater the injury though, the more energy she has to expend to repair the damage. She can stabilize someone near death, for example, but she'd kill herself trying to fully heal the damage. And as long as they have the original limb, she can reattach it. She's also able to project a barrier of energy in front of something to keep it safe, the barrier itself can take up ten tons of force, after that it'll crack and soon break.

Human form - Suzume can take on the form of a human by the name of Shimamoto Sumiye. A local 5th dan kendo/kenjutsu student at the Nakamura-ryū dojo in Steel city's Little japan district. Standing at five foot ten and possessed of an athletically graceful build, Sumiye could be mistaken for a dancer, if not for the blades worn at her hip. Or the subtle tension, like she's a relaxed spring waiting to undergo an explosion of movement. She has soft, friendly features, and long, silken black hair that contrasts against the pale tone of her skin and brings attention to soft, teal-green eyes filled with a serene happiness, like there's nothing in the world that could bother her. The transformation is so complete, that even people with magical sight wouldn't see her as anything more than a human. A magical human, but a human nonetheless.


Skills

Exceptional martial artist: Suzume, despite her inhuman skill with a blade, was also trained in the usage of staves, as well as karate and aikido. She may not be as much a threat without her sword, but she can still ensure that she can hold her own fairly well against other experienced fighters.

Skilled cook: Suzume is a picky eater and like most picky eaters, she's learned how to cook for herself. Now it's no five star cuisine, maybe three and a half stars at best, but it's pretty solidly decent. She's particularly fond of making pork gyoza dumplings.

Sword collecting: She has a habit of collecting swords. Doesn't matter who made it or from where, only that she's gotten a pretty keen eye for the quality works and usually, goes out of her way to get her hands on them. Especially when they're owned by criminals.

Abilities
Peak human agility: Thanks to her martial training, Suzume is incredibly agile, even without her sword. She's on par with an Olympic level athlete, in terms of agile mobility.

Peak human speed: She's fast, both in terms of how quickly she can beat pavement, and towards how fast she can swing a weapon or her fists. She can easily, in a dead sprint, hit 25 miles an hour, a more even paced jog, somewhere around 15mph. An even paced run? call it 18-20. But the speed at which she can send a punch or a kick, rates somewhere around 35mph. She's pretty darn quick there, bud.

Exceptional Willpower: Suzume has discipline in spades and a level of calm, borne from her martial traiting that borders on the enlightened. She has enough self-control that she can tune out pain, push it to the back of her mind in order to keep fighting. This doesn't mean she can keep fighting if you broke every single bone in her body. Hard to move when the support beams are taken out. But she could ignore the pain enough to keep the shock from killing her.

Physical Weaknesses
Soy Beans - Superman has his kryptonite, Martian manhunter has fire and Mozu has, oddly enough, Soy beans. Doesn't make sense, unless you know how soy beans are anathema to oni. Ingesting them or being in contact with the little bastards will hinder her, throwing her body into a state of chaos, weakening her considerably as well as disrupting her ability to manipulate ki, as long as she mains contact with that particular bean.

Spirit sealing - To go human means to become human. So she has to seal away some of her own strength. She can hide who she really is from prying eyes, appear as a normal human. Normal strength, normal durability, which also means the same vulnerabilities. It also takes time for her spirit to wake up, about two or three posts, and she's back to normal. But she can't seal off her ki, and that, for someone looking for magic, means she's lit up like a post-Christmas bonfire.

Electricity - Skin is still skin, regardless of how tough you are and Mozu is no exception. Electricity sucks. Not only does it hurt like a mother, but the muscle spasms can also throw her off her rhythm and trip her up.

Disarm her: While it may seem a bit foolhardy, taking away her swords, also shuts down most of her mainline combat ability, leaving her with primarily defense oriented skills and her martial skills. Which might not be enough in most cases. Like against a more skilled opponent.

Mental Weaknesses
Gold - The actual metal, not just the color or even fake gold, for some reason creates a pervasive sense of anxiety in the normally chillaxed Oni and the one thing that ensures she's always at the top of her game, is her calm. Her ability to manipulate ki is cut in half and her prodigal sword skills are surprisingly sloppy until she can either get away, or destroy the offending material.

Challenge seeker: Suzume despite her easy-going nature, has a longing to test herself against other people and be easily goaded into a fight. Just say the word and she'll be a little more than eager to butt heads with you. Not because of a temper, but the simple desire to fight strong opponents.

Equipment

Musashi Masamune: An exquisitely designed Katana, Suzume's sword of choice is a masamune original, a national treasure of Japan even. Regarded as a blessed blade, a holy sword by the more ascetic minded crowds. Suzume however, isn't convinced. She doesn't see anything special about it, other than the craftsmanship. Doesn't even recognize the metal used, though those versed in nth metal, might recognize it's presence and also, know of it's ability to negate magic, but, it can also enhance a persons powers and when channeling ki through it, she can enhance it's durability to withstand 20 tons and due to her ownership of the weapon, can recall it to her. Think Thor and Mjollnir.

Swan & Lotus:  A matched pair of blades designed for ease of use, Swan & Lotus are the bread and butter weapons in miss Sumiye's arsenal. Made to order from a specialized weapon smith in Kyoto, the blades incorporate depleted promethium, an alloy known for it's incredible durability, into their construction. Swan is a standard katana made in the traditional manner, with a blade measuring 76cm in length, for a total length of 106cm, while Lotus is an ō-wakizashi, sporting a blade no more than 60 centimeters with a total length of 68 centimeters.

Bokuto: A simple wooden sword made from oak in the design of a guardless katana, deadly in the right hands in that it can inflict blunt force trauma. In Suzume's hands? May as well be another blade if she so desired.

Wide-brimmed straw jingasa: Nothing super special, just a lacquered, straw jingasa hat, the type typically worn by ronin and samurai. Good for rainy days in lieu of an umbrella.

Pack of non-descript cigarettes: Non-descript menthol cigarettes, possibly native brand.

Disposable lighter: A simple disposable lighter, comes in a variety of colors. She likes red.

Red oni mempo mask: A half-face mask, designed to look like the snarling maw of a demon. The kinda thing you'd see at a costume party on halloween.



Personality
When people meet Suzume, most are taken aback by her relaxed down to earth nature, of her lackadaisical effervescence that's as infectious as it is consistent, with a carefree edge that makes her seem irresponsible or uncaring. At least, that's the first impression most people will get. But, getting to know her, you'd find a surprisingly diligent person underneath all that offhanded aloofness. Always seeking to do what's right, not based on anyone else's orders or demands, but because she feels like it. She treats everyone with kindness and respect, expects the same in return, really, that's all she asks. Be kind. Even if she has to warn people not to.

And some people take that as weakness. As her trying to placate or smooth things over, that she'd rather just sit back and let what happens, happen. People have had their fingers broken with that line of thinking. Because even the nicest person alive, has a limit on their patience. She won't necessarily kill you, but she will leave you a very poignant reminder on what happens when you're not nice, especially when she asks you to stop.

Suzume loves her kendo practice, hanging out at the mall, or around the street food vendors in Little Japan and, subsequently, loves eating all the food she can buy. But she's not naive, she knows how bad the world is, doesn't stop her from enjoying what she can enjoy. So she fights for that, tooth and nail in her bid to enjoy a relatively normal life.


Family Members: Birth parents(Deceased)// Shichirou Hamasaki(Adoptive father, alive.)
Place of Origin: Steel city, Little Japan.

History
Suzume never met her parents. An orphan at birth, her father died in a car crash on the way to the hospital and her mother died on the table during the c-section to get the infant out. What they got out was a girl, alright, a whopping 12 pounds, with, oddly enough, a small horn-like protrusion jutting from the right side of her head. Not to mention how big she got as she got older. She was nearly six foot by the age of twelve, and by the time she was sixteen? Well, damn near no one wanted her. Which, understandable, who'd want a teen that absolutely towered over you, especially with a very much obvious horn sprouting from their head. She'd been called a demon on at least five separate accounts.

Except for the last case file for that day and, this was something of an odd hail mary for Suzume's understandably frazzled worker. Even as they met the small, slightly ponchy looking man, the last name on a long list of foster care applicants. One Shichirou Hamasaki. It was through him that she learned a little more about herself. The man was a spiritualist, a shaman to be precise and told her about her apparent heritage. He took her in and, honestly, treated her like a normal goddamn child. Sure, there were lessons on how to utilize and harness those gifts, her talents, as he put it. Training, in other words. Hard training, not just physically, but mentally and even spiritually exhausting. How to manipulate those energies, how to see the unseen. Even martial training. He was strict in his methods. But, by the end of the day, he was back to being the same old, overly leisurely, middle-aged man, acting the carefree fool.

But it, and all the experiences he's managed to cram into eight short years, it's given her a more enlightened worldview. The world can go at it's own pace and she'll respect that, but she also feels free to do what's right. And doing what's right, starts in steel city. But she's doing it at her own pace.

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