User blog:Holokami/Character Sheet: Shira

"Pay heed to my teachings child, as you shall be seeing a side of your powers none can even dream of."

- Shira to Nozomi

Shira is the most elderly of the fox spirits, and the most powerful; powerful enough to freely roam to, from and around Astrala and Earth. Fox spirits are one of the spirit families without a kingdom, and are nearly all independent. Shira is the spirit who found and raised Nozomi for her own goals, and kept her away from her mother and sister.

Appearance
Shira has very long white hair with two white ears, and a thick, bush white tail. Her eyes are yellow, and around them she has red lining.

Shira wears Japanese style clothing, black, fingerless elbow gloves, and a few rings and bracelets. She always wears small ribbon bows with bells on them in her hair, and two small rings pierced near the tip of each ear.

Personality
Shira is a very old spirit; wise, intelligent, strong willed and scheming. She has no hesitation in doing what she wants, no matter what that is, or what she needs to do to do it.

Background
Shira has existed for a long time, and was the first fox spirit to appear.

One day, Shira saw a vision of a giant black snake spirit coiling around the Earth and killing it. She knew even she wasn’t powerful enough to stop this coming disaster, and the other spirits wouldn’t listen. That’s when she got a vision of a Human girl- and a powerful one at that. One who is really close to the spirits.

Shira bided her time, until the disaster that fell on Nozomi’s family occurred, then she swooped in, and collected Nozomi. Nozomi, to Shira’ amusement, had amnesia from a nearly lethal blow to the head she took. This made it much easier on Shira, as she didn’t even need to use her powers. She kept Nozomi away from her family in order to train her; a less than kind act, but Shira felt it was for the best.

Shira spent the next five years training Nozomi, as well as teaching and raising her. Over this time, Nozomi only gained flashes of images about her life, but nothing much, like a few snapshots of faces. Among the intensive astral training, Shira also showed Nozomi to five spirits, and showed her how to summon them from Astrala, and channel their powers as her own. Not powerful enough to travel from Astrala to Earth herself, Shira’s daughter, Faera, was watching Nozomi, and developed a soft spot for her and her struggles. Faera felt incredibly bad keeping Nozomi from her family, but knew if her mother said it was for the best, it was for the best.

When the Shepherds and Nozomi had their encounter, Shira allowed her to go with them. Shira knew that Nozomi needed to gain actual experience of combat, and knew when the black snake appeared, Nozomi might be strong enough. Shira, wanting to check on Nozomi, went to the Psychic School Islands a year later. That’s when she saw Nozomi channeling the spirit of the “Ogre Warrior” Kyobor, a powerful spirit Nozomi had met and bonded with all by herself. Shira actually felt a little pride, and Faera was amazed at the skill of this Human. Faera took it on herself to contact Nozomi the next time she was in Astrala, and showed her how to channel her powers. During this meeting, Shira appeared before Nozomi and came clean on everything, feeling that there was no longer a benefit to keeping it secret.

Nozomi, was furious, confused and upset about it. The spirit who raised her kept her from her real family. What was she to think? They left Nozomi by herself for a while, and she came to a conclusion after calming down. She didn’t feel like she could be angry, as she didn’t know her family, at the same time, she couldn’t forgive Shira for keeping her away, but, Shira did spend five years raising her like her own daughter. Nozomi couldn’t stay angry.

Nozomi has become incredibly powerful, and Shira waits patiently for the day the black snake appears.

Powers
Shira is a powerful, independent spirit, not as powerful as a ruling spirit, but easily coming in second to them.
 * Astral Manipulation/Soul Manipulation - Shira has powerful astral abilities, and abilities related to manipulating souls, likely the greatest in Astrala not of a Ruling Spirit. Shira was going to teach Nozomi how to extend her astral powers into soul-related abilities, but she thought that was too much for such a young girl.
 * Soul Removal/Astral Projection - One of Shira's more deadly powers- she can literally rip the soul/spirit of any being out of its body/mind.
 * Dream Manipulation
 * Elemental Manipulation
 * Fox-Fire Manipulation
 * Enhanced/Supernatural Condition - Being a powerful spirit, Shira a powerful physical condition.
 * Illusion Manipulation
 * Insanity Inducement
 * Memory Manipulation - Shira is capable of manipulating memories. She was going to use this on Nozomi, until she found out Nozomi had amnesia.
 * Possession
 * Plant Manipulation
 * Precognitive Dreaming - This is how Shira saw visions of the black snake spirit and Nozomi.
 * Psychic Element Manipulation
 * Spiritual Element Manipulation - Shira can manipulate elements born from astral energy and the soul. These elements are like psychic elements, but affecting the soul/spirit instead of the mind.
 * Telekinesis
 * Telepathy
 * Trickster

Trivia

 * After things settled between Nozomi and Shira, and even after Nozomi met her real mother and sister, Shira lives with Nozomi in her room on the Psychic School Islands.
 * Fox Spirits are a spirit family more related to souls and spirits than primal or elemental power.

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