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[ALEXIS S. REINSCHILD]

SHIRAKO TACHIBANA
( Disorderly Conduct )

NAME,

Shirako Tachibana

NICKNAME,

Shira, Shi-chan

AGE,

Twenty-five

GENDER & PREFERENCE,

Female, bisexual

PROFESSION,

History teacher at Gekkoukan, adviser for the Kendo teams on occasion; still acts as an investigator and informant on the side

PERSONALITY,

Shirako's personality varies depending on the situation. On an every day basis, she's mildly talkative- friendly and down-to-earth. With family and those she considers friends, she's kind- honest and faithful, gentle in her own way. She's protective, though it often comes off as roughness, sometimes to the point that it seems like possessiveness. In retrospect, those she doesn't like often get the cold shoulder, if not a hilt-smack. To her students, she's both strict and considerate, willing to make compromises with those that need extra time- under the right circumstances- while completely unyielding with those that slack off. She also has a habit of asking particularly ill-mannered students if they'd like to assist her in demonstrating honor-killing. This only makes her appear slightly more crazy, considering that she tugs Nameless along to school.

In terms of professionalism, Shirako is a conundrum. She's overly cautious on a job and quick to become paranoid when people seem- what she considers- “odd”, but her general sense of distrust and outright disbelief seems to completely leave her the moment she returns home. Even funnier, she has no problems with living at home with the rest of her family, despite her shady side-occupation. Her room is another similar mystery. It is, putting things nicely, a dump. It is in no way neat, yet, to her, it's fine. She can locate anything in her room despite the apparent chaos. It's a “neat disorganization”- if that were ever possible.

In reality, the woman gets too relaxed at home, though she'd never admit it. If she did not expect work on a particular day, the only thing keeping her from staying home, in her pajamas, and lazing about while in a half-drunk state would be a schedule or planned outing with someone. Despite her laziness and sloppiness at home, though, she's very self-reliant, seldom allowing others to assist her. This is as much a boon to her as it is a detriment. Her refusal to rely on others often pushes her to self-destructive ends. On the other hand, it's a sign that, despite her slowly-worsening condition, she refuses to accept pity, even if it makes things rougher for her.

LIKES & DISLIKES,

+Alcohol
+Baking
+Blades
+Children
+Classical Music
+Cooking
+Jazz
+Mysteries (Primarily books; real mysteries are just another day at work for her)
+Shoujo-ai (The fluffy sort)
+Sweets
+Tea

-Cigarettes, smoke, and most smokers
-Cliché and/or unoriginal stories
-Coffee
-Loud and/or grating music
-Overly loud music/people
-Perverts
-Sour food
-Those that drink to fit in, or for attention
-Weak alcohol

ALLIANCE,

SEES; informant, and occasional supplier of weapons.

WEAPON & TACTICS,

-Nameless

Nameless is a thirty-inch blade that has no proper name. The blade has been with Shirako since she began her work as a private investigator. Though it was not made by an overly skilled smith, the blade has served the investigator-slash-teacher well over the years. Its actual age is unknown- as it was a hand-me-down to a friend of her brother, to her brother, and eventually to her- but the blade has aged well. She often brings it along in her pack, even if she's not on a job, as a precaution.

-Tsuki no Kiba

Tsuki no Kiba, or “Fang of the Moon”, is a blade forged by a smith who practiced in the arts of forging used by the smiths of warring-age Japan. The blade is about twenty-seven inches long and is a pure white. It's noticeably higher in quality than Nameless, but the woman only brings it along with her on jobs that she expects will be particularly nasty. Despite her motivations for bringing it along, Tsuki no Kiba has not once taken a life, human or Shadow, as every job it has been taken on ended up going exceedingly well. Half for precaution and half for the sake of considering it a lucky charm, Shirako, to this day, brings the katana along wherever the need may present itself.


-Tactics-

Due to having a bad heart, Shirako cannot just wildly fight and waste energy. She takes in her surroundings in a fight, judging the situation before actually fighting- and, even then, she rarely makes the first move. Taking a defensive role in combat, in a one-on-one fight, she tends to lure her opponent in, perhaps taunting them with an insult or two, and provokes a strike before weaving just out of their range as they attack. While they recover, she typically steps in for the kill. It's a basic procedure, but, in most fights with people, she fights angry people, and angry people don't seem to use their head. That, or she's been graced with idiotic enemies.

When engaged with more skilled opponents, or those that are not quite hot-headed, though, Shirako alternates her strategy a bit. While she will still take go-no-sen if possible, she's open to sen-no-go, or sen, if the situation is good. Rarely does she attempt to take sen-no-sen, as, against a skilled opponent, she weighs the risk of it being a lure too great compared to the gain of it being a genuine folly.

Current sword disciplines-

General Kendo
Jigen-ryu
Ono-ha Itto-ryu – along with dabbling into some of the variation child-styles
Yagyu Shinkage-ryu

PERSONA,

Urdefrer, of the Chariot arcana; Awakened

ADDITIONAL NOTES,

-History-

Shirako was born into a happy family at the same time as her twin. For the most part, she led an average childhood, aside from having a weak heart, and a completely identical sister. That ended at age eight. It was at that time that the father died, jumping at and knocking his children to safety as the ceiling of a room collapsed in what was considered to be a freak accident. To the three children, the father was a hero, but that vision could not have been further from the truth, when one knew all the puzzle pieces.

Their mother put on a strong face- never shedding tears in front of her children (or in general, actually)- and the children eventually overcame their loss. Around the age of ten, Shirako and her twin were both told by their mother to learn a method of self-defense. Shirako took up kendo, effectively hitting first dan at age thirteen. She then continued to practice officially until she hit high school- by which time she was effectively a third dan. Though she ceased official practice, she continued training in private- along with learning other disciplines.

In high school, she did not actively participate in clubs, though she had a rather bad habit of popping into the kendo, cooking, and literature clubs. Her twin took part in the cooking club, which inspired her popping in there. The other two were purely for her own interest. Her grades were not the best, but she usually hit above the eighty-five mark in classes. Her jack-of-all-trades skill set and open and friendly personality, along with her twin's intelligence and innocence, made the two of them fairly popular towards their second and third years.

It was also during her high school years that she encountered the Dark Hour. At age seventeen, she had awakened during the Dark Hour, and, with everything in its not-so-natural, or even welcoming, light, the young woman encountered her first Shadows. Thinking it more to be a dream than reality, she reacted with an infinitely more casual mindset engaging them. Of course, back then, she had not had a real weapon, and simply swinging a stick around did little- even if it was a fairly long and thick stick! When the monsters closed in on her, Urdefrer materialized. The first Shadow was stomped through, the front-left lance-like leg of the Persona pinning it to the ground. The second was split apart beautifully as Urdefrer scissored the Shadow's top from its bottom by crossing Ebony and Ivory. And, at first, the entirety of that was treated as naught but a dream. Over the passing weeks, however, the young woman noticed that it persisted, and, in front, was real. Though she never did become too active, she did, in fact, experiment with that hidden hour, and her Persona.

After graduation, Shirako had no motivation to attend a college, finding that she had nothing in particular she wanted to study. Her sister did move on to college. On the other hand, looking towards her brother for inspiration, she quickly turned her sights towards private investigation. Becoming his assistant before hitting nineteen, she gradually went from assisting him on jobs to working on other jobs under the name of his office. The two did, for a time, have a relatively successful business going on until a bad job came. That was the end of the Tachibana Detective Agency, but not the end of the brother-sister duo. Shirako used her connections to get another job, entering Gekkoukan as a history teacher at age twenty-three, despite having no formal teaching degree. Her brother went on to becoming a proper police officer.

At the present, all three siblings still live together with their mother, amassing their own wealth before truly leaving the nest- and also helping their mother along, as, while they have steady jobs, she has had a severe lack of that luck.


-Minor Notes (for those not familiar with Shirako)-

Shirako and her twin both have weak hearts. They're still both a bit more healthy than the average person, though, due to rather frequent workouts to build up endurance and just to generally keep in shape.

More will maybe be edited in at a later date.

OOC NAME,

erith, shira

[ALEXIS S. REINSCHILD]

URDEFRER
( Chariot Arcana )

NAME,

Urdefrer

ELEMENT,

Urdefrer leans to the physical build with a leaning towards the fire element.

AWAKENING,

Seventeen.

STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES,

Urdefrer nullifies fire, resists physical, and is weak to lightning and ice. In terms of stats, it excels in strength and speed, while its luck, endurance, and magic abilities are all about average.

SKILL SET,

-Tempest Slash
-Demon's Pin Cushion
-Agidyne
-Regenerate 3

APPEARANCE,

Urdefrer is not an entity from mythology, but a fairytale. It is a four-legged spider-like knight that protects a princess of the netherworld. It wields sister swords, both three feet in length. One is completely black, while the other is completely white- the two appropriately named Ebony and Ivory. In terms of size, Urdefrer is quite imposing, standing at something around ten feet in height. Naturally, it's built quite large, but its presence is made even more imposing by its large, night-black armor.

INFORMATION,

Too lazy this time around, guys. Below, though, you'll see Demon's Pin Cushion's description and effect, since, last I checked, custom skills were allowed. Also, like usual, no Persona art for you.

Demon's Pin Cushion
Attribute: Physical, pierce
Number of Hits/Targets: Five, single target
Damage Level: Medium, no chance of critical
Description: Once within range, Urdefrer hikes its body up on one of its hind-legs before promptly stabbing at an enemy with its other hind-leg, then both its front legs, and finally with both Ebony and Ivory, for a total of five hits.

[NOWAKI.]

ACCEPTED!

shira's in SEES; omfg, it's the end of the world, everyone run for the damn hills. LOL, it's nice to see an old, old face again. this time who isn't part of strega. 8U

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