Name: Eri Nakane
Nickname: Kiddo
Age: 17, looks around about that age, possibly a year or two younger.
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Position: Neutral-good
Powers/Abilities/Techniques/Skills:
Skills: Dodge Roll:
Allows Eri to tumble around the battlefield avoiding the potential blows of enemies. She can perform this up to five times in a row before she becomes dizzy and is unable to do so anymore for a little while until she regains her bearings (two-three post cool down depending on the amount of times it has been used. It may be used up to twice a post at any given time or once for a maximum of five consecutive posts).
Aerial Reversal:
If Eri is knocked into the air by an opponent, she is able to use some of the more acrobatic dance moves she was taught by Aunty Dolly in combination with her momentum to her advantage and land on her feet, thus mitigating the amount of time she would leave herself vulnerable to aerial based combat. However, repeated need for this will take away some of Eri’s stamina as it can be mildly stressful to do, thus rendering her incapable to use it until she is sure she has the strength to again. (May be used up to three times consecutively before a two post cool down)
Silencing Kick:
If Eri is close enough to an opponent whom she realises is about to cast magic, she can aim a debilitating kick at their throat that can negate the spell from being cast. However, this technique does not always work and merely stops the opponent from casting the spell they were about to cast. It is also transparent to Eri that if she attempts this move too much, especially against a caster who is armed, they are more than likely going to try and severe her leg than strike her down with lightning, thus meaning she will have to change her tactics. (Usable once per post for a maximum of four posts with a five post cool down)
Stunning Swipe:
Eri uses her katana in such a manner that she can temporarily stun an opponent, thus allowing her to either disengage from them, or follow up with an attack. This requires a great amount of concentration from her to aim her strike right to even have the slightest chance to stun her enemy. Thus, it is more likely that it will be ineffectual or not even hit. It is also a distinct possibility that the enemy may be able to break themselves out of the stunned state before it is even possible for Eri to do anything else. If she or anyone else physically attacks the sapped opponent, they will snap out of their stunned state and be able to retaliate. (Can be attempted up to three times in two posts consecutively, and carries with it a six post cool down)
Libra:
Being very cautious and observant for a great deal of her life, Eri has developed a way to observe her opponent and size up their strengths, weaknesses, and roughly what their endurance might be. This is a passive ability that does not give her any real beneficial status over her opponent and really only gives her an idea of what she might be up against and whether or not it is feasible to avoid the fight if necessary or possible.
Limit:Sword Dance:
Using an accumulation of her knowledge of combat and dance, Eri moves with great agility across her enemies using graceful yet powerful swings of her sword that are as fluid and hard to read as a choreographed dance. Though, if one is paying attention, they can easily dodge or parry any of her attacks. During this state, she whirls around the dance fl-err-battlefield using slashes, stabs and swings of her Katana that are double her usual power mixed in with aerial flips, pirouettes and tumbles, before finishing off her dance of destruction with one final charged up horizontal swing as she kneels on one knee, extending her sword out in an artful fashion. She requires sufficient time within a battle to not only build up the momentum to sustain and accommodate her frenzied slashes but a chance to recover from such a flurry of activity, lest she loose herself to fatigue and become completely vulnerable. (Six post charge up, duration of one post and a cool down of fifteen posts)
Weapons/Items: A single katana; nicknamed Moon Flower. The grip is big enough to hold in both hands, but is light enough that she can swing it with one hand if need be. It is normal in terms of shape and length with its only distinguishing feature is a reoccurring flower motif that is evident along the length of the blade. The grip and hand guard have a lace motif upon it, which was attached by Eri shortly after her purchase of it in an attempt to make it look ‘unique’. Her scabbard which is attached to the back of her cardigan follows this trendy customisation. There is a single moogle charm attached to the end of the katana. Apart from looking nifty it is a balanced weapon that Eri has become accustomed to. It is kept in immaculate condition and looks to be made out of a very durable steel.
She is a competent sword wielder but is by no regards a master, while being able to hold her own against many foes, if their skill far outstrips her own, Eri will most likely not engage them unless forced to. She also tries to be tactical about her fights, trying to figure out her enemy’s weakness and manipulate it to her advantage. When she is in combat she wields her weapon with a slight bias to the offensive and evasive tactics; preferring a succession of quick attacks that leave her opponent off balance, thus allowing her to efficiently dispose of them without having to rely on a great amount of skill. Because of this, she can lead herself to being vulnerable to counter-attacks frequently.
Picture:
i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee365/Ohmy8/blah/Eri.jpgAppearance:
Eri stands at approximately 5’3, appearing to be about 109 pounds. She has a slender, athletic form with long willowy limbs; with her body being widest around her shoulders and her hips. Her face is softly rounded with doe eyes that are thickly lashed and a dark blue, which look almost black under numerous lighting conditions. Her nose is on the small side and is straight; her small softly pouted lips are rosy in colouration and are full. Her doll-like features make her look more ‘cute’ or ‘pretty’ than beautiful. Her skin tone is pale with a soft golden undertone. Her straight hair is platinum blonde and is tied up into two low hanging ponytails that end past her sternum, she has a straight cut bang that is swept softly to one side and strands of hair that frame her face in a flattering manner.
As Eri attends a school she is required to wear a uniform for most of the week; her school uniform consists of a short pleated grey skirt, a white top with a red bow tied around the collar with a long sleeved creamy beige cardigan worn over the top and a pair of black knee length socks and loafer styled shiny school shoes.
When she is not required to wear this outfit she prefers to be seen in a pale pink v neck A-line mini-dress that ends at her mid-thigh and is made from heavier brocade like fabric that keeps its shape and flatters her form. Over the top of this she wears a fawn colored short cardigan made of a light, knitted fabric that ties up in the front. She also adorns herself with a pair of black opaque thigh length socks and a pair of darkly colored t strap mary jane heels that provide her with a little bit of extra height. There is an elegant looking golden necklace that ends with a teardrop shaped orange jewel that is surrounded by two charms of wings on either side of it that hangs from her neck.
Personality:
On the surface, Eri is a reserved, competent and nice enough girl albeit being aloof and somewhat challenging to talk to. She sometimes is mistaken for being uncaring for the people around her, thus prompting some to view her as stuck up. This is not how she intends to come across however, as when she meets someone who is unfamiliar she becomes shy and very cordial. This is something Eri struggles with about her personality: deep down however she is a very caring soul but she often has trouble putting into words the way she feels about the people that matter to her. This leads her to question the authenticity of her bonds and how far someone would go for her safety and happiness, and vice versa. This is something that consistently arises in Eri’s social interactions with people.
Her distrust of others until she has reason to substantiate trust in them leads her appear tougher and emotionally colder than she actually is. She finds that this emotional barrier acts as a way to distance the kind of people that would mean her ill, and would only leave those who are deserving of her trust. This façade of the reserved, austere young woman is not very strong despite being quite convincing to those that do know her well. There is also a competing quiet optimism that belies Eri’s personality; she hopes for the best secretly but doesn’t often show an overly optimistic viewpoint on life. She can maintain both fairly well, but if she has been emotionally tested, both have a tendency to crack and can leave Eri feeling quite miserable. Thus, she has become almost fearful of letting anyone close to her, lest she loose them or they disappoint her in some fashion. However, once trust has been established with her; she becomes a caring and consistent friend that would always do her best in order to keep her friends out of harm and smiling.
As such, it is to be expected that Eri can find it difficult to be around or work with people that she has had no previous experience with; however, she is not the kind of girl that will bemoan it and give others reason to view her as immature or worse, incompetent. Rather, she will do what she feels is required of her to the best of her ability with as much dignity and grace as she can muster. She does prefer being in a position of power and will subtly go about making herself the leader of the pack by suggesting what she believes to be the best course of action. However, this can lead to internal power struggles which can lead Eri fuming over things she views as losses in her authority or status and at worst can result in a bitter grudge. She is able to coolly handle most situations, but if she feels the situation is becoming extreme, she can suffer from anxiety and tends towards being irrational, flippant or - much to her shame - cowardly.
Eri is deeply motivated by the power of friendship and the strength of unity and desires a fulfilling and adventurous life with as many people that love her as possible. Thus, she has no real ulterior motive other than to help and befriend as many as possible. As she has a deep fear of being rejected by people she cares about and the feelings of loneliness and emptiness that accompany such a rejection, Eri finds she constantly worries what people think of her and thus has difficulties establishing a complete idea of who she is as a person.
She has an interest in dance and reading, often being found wandering around Sunset Hill with a book about her most recent fascination in her hand or swaying in time to music that plays on in her head by herself. She enjoys being near water and finds being near the sea relaxing, often using trips to the beach as an excuse to clear her head. She is definitely a workaholic and often needs to take a break from her life and unwind, using these frequent trips to the Hill and Beach to do so. She is also one of the few girls in her school that quite enjoys entering the Struggles, and despite not being a champ enjoys the healthy competition greatly. Eri also tries to find beauty in everything in the world, and has turned it into a little game with herself where she tries to find as many good things as possible within everything she can see.
Original World: Destiny Islands
Current World: Twilight Town
History:
KH: BBS - 5
Kairi appearing on le islands: 6
KH1 – 15
KH:COM – 15
KH2 – 16
KH WD – 17
Eri was born to a loving mother and father that had a generously well off lifestyle – the equivalent of the upper middle class. As she grew up, she was taught to respect the values of hard-work (As that was what had given her such a privileged life) and to not judge or be judged by physical possessions; but rather look to someone’s inner character to truly judge their worth. As such, Eri always put one hundred and ten per cent into everything she did in order to feel she is respecting her parent’s wishes for her success. However, growing up like this meant that despite not being a snobby, spoilt brat, she became socially withdrawn from others as she was always too busy studying or otherwise engaged in something else. When she was approached by children, she didn’t know how to respond as she did not have much contact with them but always treated them in a timid and polite manner. As an almost direct result she became bullied by several girls by age five, leading her to become reticent and fearful of people her own age. The girls were the typical stuck up, mean kinds that found Eri an easy target, and would often tease her about her tentativeness around others, as well as a weight problem that plagued her until her earlier teens.
By the time she was about 8, she began to replace this fear of her peers with a longing to become like them. It was a tenuous process, which took years for her to accomplish and often resulted in hurt feelings and using food as a comforter. This deep seated desire of hers spawned from seeing the strength of a friendship between a group of children she never really learned the names of. There was something about the closeness and comfort that all three of them shared that struck a chord within her, she desired that visceral bond with someone. How wonderful it would be to have a friend, she would find herself musing as she stared out the window of her fairly large house – which began to feel evermore like a prison to her – out to an islet where many of the children of her world would play and explore.
Not being the kind of girl to idly sit by and do nothing to improve her situation for too long, Eri ventured out of her comfort zone one day when she was ten, and began to talk to a boy with rich, inky black hair and deep brown eyes that she met one day after school in a library. His name was Hiroki. He was three years older than Eri and had a calmness and wisdom that she was instantly drawn to. He was the kind of sophisticated company her parents would be thrilled for her to bring home. The friendship bloomed quickly, with Eri finding the solace of another person that she craved, and Hiroki finding a loyalty in another human that he had been searching for. Her parents were elated that their daughter had finally seemed contented with her life.
Hiroki also taught her a number of things about the world she lived in and started to make her question whether or not there were other worlds that existed. This fuelled a desire within Eri to travel away from the Islands where she had grown up and make a name for her elsewhere. He also taught her a fair few self-defence moves that he had picked up from lessons he did weekly. These proved invaluable when she was twelve, when the bullies she was plagued by attempted to beat her in order to further their dominance over her. It became apparent from that moment that Eri’s resolve had strengthened and she was not going to let herself be victimised by anyone.
Things changed, not only within her but in her appearance and her life when she was fifteen. She had slimmed down dramatically due to exercise and the onsets of growing up; experiencing what she fondly refers to as her ‘transformation into a beautiful swan’. This change brought about a new-found self-confidence and her appreciation of the beauty of anything and everything. After all, her logic left her thinking that beauty takes many forms, some more conventional than others. So too did her feelings for her friend transform into something more serious than a sisterly affection. She was utterly entranced by his genius, his compassion for others, the way his eyes would light up when he came up with an idea, and when he would smile. She especially loved his smile. She was never sure if he truly understood or returned her affections however, because despite his humanity, he was more aloof and naive about the ways of the heart than she was.
Of course, some changes are not always for the better. There was one night that just as she was about to go to sleep, there was a strange darkness and storm that enveloped that islet that she had gazed out at so many times in the past. This confused her greatly, as this was not some ordinary looking storm. She could have sworn in between the buffeting of the wind against her window and questioning if she was seeing walking shadows whether or not she was seeing a giant dark shadow on that islet that eventually swallowed up that place where she once yearned to visit but never did.
That was the last thing she remembers of her home world. It was destroyed that night. The next time Eri awoke, she was on top of Sunset Hill in Twilight Town. As is to be expected she was utterly confused upon first arriving in this unfamiliar setting. She found pity in a kind hearted middle aged woman called Dolly, whom insisted on being called ‘Aunty’, a title that has stuck ever since.
It didn’t take her long to figure out that she had somehow survived some kind of invasion against her own world, which must have meant that there were others from her world that had been scattered into different worlds in a manner similar to her. Whilst she vaguely knew the principal of why she had arrived here, it was beyond her comprehension as to why it had happened or what had caused it. Although, she suspected the shadows she had seen that night may have had something to do with it.
It wasn’t long before the shadow creatures started to occasionally invade her new home world; however, this appeared to be anomalous in this world. It was at this point, Eri realised her original world had been destroyed. Hiroki's assumption about other universes existing besides theirs and the one she was currently in was beyond a shadow of a doubt right . Upon this realisation, Eri fell into a deep sadness and nearly let the darkness of her own heart swallow her up. Her saving grace was her new Aunty who taught her the joys of dancing; something the woman enjoyed doing a great deal when she was Eri’s age. It was through this that Eri found a way to let the sadness of losing all she had ever known go.
A year passed and she had fully adapted to her new world, enrolling in a new school and studying hard as ever, this time, keeping people at a safe but amicable distance and had all but made the lady that showed her so much kindness a blood relative. She also kept up her training in the arts of self-defence by studying as many books on the matter as she could find; as well as getting involved in the struggles as much as possible. She also learned to incorporate more advanced dance moves her Aunty taught her into her arsenal, thus making her a formidable opponent.
She supplemented her de-facto mother’s income by doing little odds and ends styled jobs around the town, eventually earning enough to warrant Dolly allowing her to purchase a weapon of her choice, a katana, under the strict conditions that it would only be used as a weapon of self-defence. Thrilled with her purchase, she went about decorating it to give it a unique appearance that was distinctly her own, and nick naming it after Hiroki's favourite kinds of flowers: the moonflower.
The "Heartless" also seemed to have a kind of natural predator develop out of nowhere:these strange white things known as "Nobodies" like the "Heartless" themselves had done that night on Destiny Island. Moon Flower became more of an ornament that Eri kept constantly on her back, as there was not much need to use it in Twilight Town. For reasons beyond any comprehension, when the Destiny Islands world was restored Eri did not return like others that also originated from there. It may have been because of the fact that she had gained ties to Twilight Town that were too real to be easily severed or, because she was living in this world, she was unable to return directly to her home world. Regardless of the reason, Eri remained in Twilight Town.
Now she is seventeen, and despite feeling comfortable within Twilight Town, she wishes to adventure out into the other worlds that are out there, possibly one day returning home to her parents and Hiroki or at least finding the worlds they may have been stranded in. The only problem she finds in this is how to travel across the worlds. She had arrived in Twilight Town by chance and could not find any real information about travelling through the worlds.
Role Playing Sample:
She was making her way up to Sunset Hill, her usual stomping ground, the
leave-me-alone-I-want-to-think space as Aunty had so cheerfully called it. This was the first place she woke up to when she arrived in the world that was bathed in this glorious and beautifully perpetual twilight. The sight out into the water and the town from here was almost unmatched in her eyes in terms of beauty. Though, at times, the constant twilight meant Eri had trouble trying to figure out when exactly she was supposed to sleep – unlike in Destiny Island, where there was a clear differentiation between the night and day.
She was looking forward to having some time to herself; she couldn’t figure out why however, she just knew she needed it. There was something strange about her usual spot and about herself today though, everything felt off. Her movements were languid and flowing which made her feel as though she was walking underwater. What a ridiculous notion!
As she made her way up to the peak, she saw an almost familiar silhouette standing on top of the handrails, arms and legs outstretched. The figure looked like he was going to jump!
“No! Don’t do it Hiroki! I need you here with me!” the blonde haired youth screamed out, not knowing how she knew it was him. She instinctually knew it was.
He half turned around to face her from her position, but the sun flared up obscuring his features, so she wasn’t sure it was her long lost friend. She could make out what looked like a smile on his face before he turned his back to her. It was unmistakeably that smile. She could pick it out anywhere, even from a distance.
“Ire em dnif emoc. Oddik uoy t’nod, od ot tahw wonk uoy?”
That was strange. Whatever was just said reverberated in her head. Was that normal? No way it was. Was this some kind of dream? Eri didn’t have much time to question what was going on, because Hiroki tipped over the edge and was free falling to the water below. She raced over to the edge to try and save him, but she was too late. Was she? There was no splash, no anything. It was like he was never there. The young girl leaned over a little further, trying to look for her friend. She must have lost her footing at that point, as she fell over the edge head first, she too was falling increasingly fast towards the water. She put her arms out, trying to cut the surface of the water and closed her dark blue eyes. So, was this how it was to end? In the ocean, making nothing more than a splash and then gurgle-gurgle out of existence?
There was a red film on the inside of her eyelids and she could feel the familiar heat of the sun on her pallid skin. Her eyes snapped open, she was floating in the waters of Destiny Island. How was she here? Wasn’t she just in Twilight Town before? This didn’t make any sense to her at all. Did that mean if she had wanted to return home at any time, all she had to do was jump off the top of the hill? She spied Hiroki in the distance once more; he was wading out deeper and deeper into the ocean. She swam as fast as she could over to him and then began to wade over to him. Something tugged against her foot, she tried to move again, but her foot would not come unstuck. A wave hit her and dragged her underwater.
“Open your heart to the possibilities of life” a mysterious, yet familiar wordless voice drifted through her mind as if it was being ushered on by the tropical winds.
Instead of being washed up onto the shore line, she was dragged deeper into the briny blue. She felt like she was going to drown. The darkness was becoming overwhelming. She was never going to make it; death wasn’t one of those things someone was lucky enough to dodge twice in a row. Whatever this was, she was going to die here. No one would ever find the body of the seventeen year old. She would never see her family, Hiroki or dear Aunt Dolly again…
She was suspended in the deep blue for what felt like an eternity. There was no fire in her lungs that would indicate that she was drowning. Tentatively she opened her mouth, and she was breathing normally. This was far beyond bizarre. Everything about where she was, was unmistakably like the suspended weightlessness of water. And yet, she could breathe.
Her hand came into contact with something smooth as the soundless voice echoed into her mind:
“You are strong enough to continue. Don’t let your sorrow dictate who you are.” She looked around her, an explosion of white petals surrounded her and she was seated on a giant stained glass structure. She could not make out what was on this platform just yet, nor could she figure out whether this was just fantasy or reality. All she could comprehend was that she was breathing.
