Crystal-sama

[Crystal]

NINJA PERSONA

Name: Crystal Tumbleweed

Species: Human, with no transformations.

Appearance:



Crystal Tumbleweed is a ninja, with all the appearance and stealth generally ascribed to the name. She is small, almost tiny, slim and wiry with long black hair and a touch of grace that people never notice when she's hurting them. Quite a while ago, she added artificial golden streaks to her hair and they have remained ever since.

Crystal wears a veil and black gloves most of the time. She is fond of her anonymity and wears them whenever she is out of the Ninja HQ, with the exception of when she is undercover.

Recently, she also had a brief stint in the Knights Guild, earning her spurs and attaining the title of knight.

Like others of her ninja brethren - the female ones anyway - Crystal has a preference for dark or subdued colours, airy wooden rooms, soft pillows, gauzy cloth curtains, and strong personal hygiene.

She also smells very good.

She also moonlights as a ballerina. She's actually quite good.


Character type: Ninja, Knight


Weapon of Choice: Whip, double swords, and kunai. For short range and simple tasks, Crystal uses her multiple kunai and occasionally shuriken. She favors the more unconventional whip and also fights proficiently with two light swords or whatever make. However, she has been trained in practically all sorts of weaponry and is thus very versatile.

Crystal has also been trained in hand-to-hand combat and is very agile and flexible. She uses her small size to increase her speed, although it detracts from sheer brute strength.


Magical capabilities: Crystal actually does have magical capability of some sort in the realm of water and ice, but it is so weak it might as well not be there at all. She generally uses it to cool things down... like her tea.


Personality: Despite everything, Crystal is a strongly affectionate and very girlish kind of person. She carries out her ninja tasks with a focused kind of determination, but though they frequently involve torture, she never seems to delight in it. She often seems cold to anyone who she sees as unworthy of her respect, or someone whom she knows she isn't really going to see again.

A very long time ago, Crystal castrated Nick in a fit of irritation at his unbridled girl-chasing, and since then it has become her signature act of violence. While not a sadist, she can be very cold and scientific when she has someone at her mercy, and it makes her quite a bit more dangerous, because she can call up all sorts of unpleasant biological knowledge.... all in the name of science. While she DOES have compassion, she also has a very strict adherance to the ninja code of honour... and a very strong stomach to go along with it.

When not required to do anything, she is fond of curling up in a bed full of silks and blankets and cushions and pillows with something to read. She can be absolutely adorable and/or pitiful when she wants something.

Crystal likes being hugged and held and taken care of, even if she can take care of herself.


Tabloid Data:

Rivalries: No real major ones.

Mother: Leoness, Rider

Father: Strife, Kit (although he denies it >>)

Siblings: Very many. Most prominently, younger sister Hu and older brother Stal

Children: None. Crystal was herself castrated at a rather young age. It was fairly traumatizing, and she seems determined to re-traumatize every male around.

Significant Other: Single for a long, long time, because she doesn't really show any wish to stay with a partner for more than a day.

Willing to be used in Tabloids? Definitely.

[Crystal]

KNIGHT PERSONA

Name and title*: Lady Crystal Tumbleweed Knight color*: Sepia Title*: Reverant Hand Age: 21 Height: 5’3” Complexion: Lightly tanned Eyes: Dark hazel Hair: Black, with artificial red streaks. Long and straight, reaching down to her waist. Build: Light, slim and wiry.

Description*: Crystal is small, medium-height and slim and astonishingly quiet in her movements. She favors light weaponry and armor, or in fact no armor at all, and if not for the sigil of Castle Kestrel, she would not look like a knight. As a matter of fact, she looks like a ballerina.

She is delicately-boned and very graceful, and a vast amount of her training has taken advantage of that fact. While she has no real uniform clothing, she has a distinct preference for dark or gray-hued tones, coupled with black fingerless gloves and a veil.

Crystal lacks significantly in knightly behavior. She is a ninja through-and-through; sweet and polite, backstabbing and poisoning. It causes problems for her within the Knight's guild; she has very few friends. The few times she displays her calculating, ruthless side, she shocked most of her peers, and it was only through much conniving and some very good lying that she is a knight.

All that aside, she is solidly loyal and highly respectful to her elders. Crystal is a cool, quiet, aloof friend, affectionate in private and reserved in public, and she adheres strictly to etiquette and honour. Hers is a cold anger at it’s worst, and she moves easily to the less knightly ways of war when pressed.

Crystal is intelligent and dabbles also in other fields, mainly chemistry and biology. Her interest in biology extend only as far as to know where to hurt people, but her knowledge of chemistry extends quite far beyond that. She also has some knowledge of herbs, which, coupled with the earlier sciences, allow her to make her own poisons or drugs. She has very little knowledge about healing.


History: The Ninja Guild has been in decline for a long time; even at it’s peak, when Kiddo was it’s sensei, there were few in it’s wooden halls. The Ninjas were mostly solitary and proud, reserved with a high degree of respect and etiquette and honour. Crystal grew up in the dojo, indoctrinated in their form of honour and trained in the forms of assassination, and when her best friend Kiddo became sensei, she was promoted to second in command. Then the fox-phoenix left to other lands, and Crystal, too, slowly faded into the background, taking less and less responsibility of the management of the guild and more and more interest in the outside world.

She left within a few months of her sixteenth birthday and ran upon Dunburrow and it’s Knights. Intrigued, she disguised herself and stayed; in time, she began to regard Dunburrow as a home. However, she was uncomfortable there - she has always been uncomfortable there - because her ninja upbringing kept showing through, no matter how much she lied and connived and kept her secrets. (Crystal is essentially incapable of understanding why she shouldn't just stab some idiot in the back if they needed stabbing, you know?)

But she earned her spurs... eventually. The day she was knighted, she ditched her armour and sword and lance, and left to return to the Ninja Dojo.

She arrived to find the dojo empty and the ancestral halls unpeopled. Most of the ninjas had left; retaining their status as ninja, like her, but belonging to other guilds and other loyalties and other homes. The ninja, while still numberous enough, were scattered and no longer all in one place like she remembered. In a way it could have been considered an improvement, but expecting to find the home of Kiddo's days and returning to find it even less a home than it was, Crystal was very upset and blamed herself for not staying and rallying the ninjas who had still been there. Unable to stay in the ghost dojo for long, she set off back to Dunburrow and Castle Kestrel, the only other place she had left.


Weapons: Crystal fights double-handed, with two light swords of whatever make. She is very nastily aquainted with the underhanded forms of street brawling and assassination. She has poison anointed on several daggers, and a very rusty, blunt kunai which she uses for torture. Her way of fighting involves very little brute strength, and a great deal of grace and agility, so she carries very little which can weigh her down… including scruples and the like.

Crystal has also been trained in various forms of hand-to-hand combat, and is reasonably proficient with the broadsword.

Armor: If possible, Crystal wears almost no armor at all, content with dark hued clothing which blend into the background. Her favorite place of fighting is in the dark; she has very good night vision, or indoors, where she can climb the walls.

Magic: None, or close to none. Crystal actually does have some magical capablity of some sort in the realm of ice and water, but it is so weak it might as well not be present at all. She uses it occasionally to cool down her tea.

Companion: None


Room description: Crystal’s room does not display her violent side at all. She can in fact be warm and very affectionate when she is happy, and her room reflects more of that side of her, with a tapestry on the wall and a bed filled with cushions and a large window with light pink curtains. She has a marked preference for airy wooden rooms, silks, and strong personal hygiene.

She misses her home in the Ninja Dojo very much, and made her room into something which resembles it, adding Oriental touches such as wood, bamboo, rugs, and choosing a room which looked out at the mountains.


Other: Crystal likes being hugged, surprisingly enough, when she is sad or unhappy. She limits physical affection to close friends, however.

Crystal does not get along well with some of the other knights. No flaming burning hatred, but more like antipathy.

[Crystal]

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