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Immortal, Huntress, Tea Shop Owner
The only way you understand the truth about killing an enemy in combat... is by killing an enemy in combat.
- — Kira
Born Wu Xi-Fang, not much is known about her life before her First Death. What is known is that recently, She has been calling herself Kira and hunting down evil Supernatruals, or at least, those unlucky enough to cross her path. Owning a Tea House in Beacon Hills, she has gotten a small reputation as a Demon Hunter, and those who have accsess to the Watcher's Library, know that her file is about five hundred years old, and about Threehundred quickenings strong.
Personality[]
Kira is a nice person, kind and willing to help anyone in need. She has been known to train and protect young Immortals, and even offer refuge to those supernaturals who aren't evil, just, stuck in a world where most would turn on them. She doesn't like the idea of having to decapitate another Immortal, but doesn't shy away from it because if evil is allowed to wander, others could be hurt. The only person she wishes to be dead is Kaizer, whom she will kill without a second thought. She enjoys reading, and the finer arts, as well as learning about people. Injustice upsets her, and usually, she will step in to help someone who is on the wrong end of that Injustice, apparently, still not learning even after 500 years.
SKILLS[]
ACADEMICS[]
Novice
Kira has taught herself enough basic academic studies to have a high school graduates level of knowledge. Most of her five centuries of life being devoted to fighting, or learning about the supernatural world, rather then the studies of the mundane world.
ATHLETICS[]
Competent
Complimenting her fighting style is her ability to move, gymnastics, acrobatics, parkour and balance like abilities. She doesn't focus to much on it outside of combat, but it has given her cause to be rather crafty, able to get to places the average person can't, though, an Olympic athlete would give her a run for her money.
COMBAT[]
Expert
Kira is trained in the martial arts forms of kung Fu, and Wing Chun. She was trained after her first death by Shaolin monks who found her wandering in a forest. Since then, she has honed her skill, and has over five hundred years worth of skill on her own, as well as countless added years from other immortals through their quickenings.
LINGUISTICS[]
Expert
Kira has traveled alot in her time, and has picked up many different languages such as: Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Italian, German, French, Spanish and English.
MEDICINE[]
Expert
Kira has been trained in the use of herbs and other holistic forms of healing. She is able to make most workable medicines from herbs, as well as knows how to wrap a wound, splint a broken bone, and place a joint back into a socket. This was her first Profession, and over the years she has honed this skill which has helped out her many companions over the years.
SUPERNATURAL LORE[]
Competent
Kira found out and learned about the many other aspects and denizens of the supernatural world. She has studied them as well as slain quite a few who turned out to be evil. Vampires, Demons, and the like. She also has a basic understanding of magic, though, she herself isn't a witch by any stretch, she does understand the rules, or in some cases, the lack there of.
POWERS[]
CONCEALMENT[]
Basic
Kira's weapon of choice is a hand an a half straight edged Chinese Broadsword. She usually hides this blade behind her, under her clothing, and is able to draw it at a moment's notice.
EMPOWERED PHYSIQUE[]
Enhanced
The one enhanced physique element that all immortals share is resiliency. They are immune to disease, though they can be incapacitated by toxins or poisons. Sufficient physical trauma results in a temporary death, leaving the immortal inert for up to several hours. After this, they awaken fully recovered, so long as they have not been decapitated.
EMPOWERED WEAPON[]
Enhanced
Kira's Weapon, a Straight Edged hand a half Chinese Broadsword, called Lung's Tooth, was made by a master sword crafter in the mid 1400's. She is never without her blade within arm's reach. The blade itself is unbreakable, and it cut's through most non metals like butter, and can puncture metal.
HEALING[]
Supernatural
Every Immortal has the ability to heal at a very accelerated rate, and Kira is no exception. Aside from a decapitation or limb amputation, most cuts can heal within seconds, bones can mend in a few hours and in the event she takes enough damage to be 'killed' her body will heal itself and she is back on her feet in around six hours.
QUICKENING BOOST[]
Enhanced
Kira is able to summon life energy within and around herself to call upon a temporary boost to her speed, strength, reflexes and agility. Though this leaves her tired after a fight and prolonged use (over thirty minutes) will cause her to pass out for roughly the same time as if she was 'killed by violence'.
QUICKENING CAST[]
Enhanced
The Source, or power that all immortals are tied too, has granted Kira with the ability to activate any magical artifact or item. Kira does this by channeling a small bit of energy into said artifact to activate it. She cannot cast freely, and needs an artifact, even then, she is limited to what the artifact will actually do magically. (A healing item will not cast a destructive spell, and she can't heal with a wand that is used for destructions ect.)
THE BUZZ[]
Enhanced
Kira is able to not only sense other immortals, she can feel when one dies, and who it was that died if she is not directly witnessing the fight. She is also able to feel other supernatural people. This powers manifests as a slight sound in her ear, and she can only easily tell vampires apart from other supernaturals, aside from knowing an immortal when in their vicinity.
THE QUICKENING[]
Enhanced
Immortals are powered through a energy called the Source, which gives them their quickenings. Kira has taken over Three Hundred Heads, some less then ten years an Immortal, and some as old as she is. The peculiar thing about her Quickening, is that it's a Light Quickening, any Evil Immortal who is lucky enough to take her head, will become good, much like Darius was when he killed an Immortal outside of France.
ADVANTAGES[]
LUNG'S TOOTH[]
Forged in the mid 1400's, This blade once Belonged to Kira's former teacher. it's a hand and a half Chinese broadsword, straight edged with a single sharp edge. The blade itself is three and a half feet long, with the hilt bearing an ornate serpent like dragon motif.
RESOURCES[]
Kira owns a Teahouse, years of selling off 'Family Heirlooms' and writing books has lead to her 'estate' receiving a nice sum of money, not enough to label her filthy rich, but enough so that money, or lack there of, is a hindrance. She does work in the Tea House as it's owner, and is more then willing to give a job to others who need a part-time job, especially supernaturals so that she can keep an eye on them.
WEAKNESSES[]
BEHEADING[]
Even though she is Immortal, she can be killed through being beheaded, giving her knowledge and ability to another immortal. If she is killed by a Mortal with no other Immortal to accept her Quickening, that power goes to 'the source'.
HOLY GROUND[]
It is Forbidden for an Immortal to fight on any holy ground, save for self defense against a non Immortal. The black lash from getting a quickening on Holy ground is destructive to the Immortal receiving said quickening at best.
KAIZER[]
Kaizer is an Immortal who has killed two of Kira's Husbands in the past, one was immortal, the other was an attempt to lure her out. She has fought him, and he escaped, a known coward of an Immortal. If Kira catches scent of his trail, she will stop at nothing to take his head, and woe be to anyone who gets in her way.
PERSONAL CODE[]
Kira has a set of rules, aside from those all immortals have to follow. Her first Rule is that she will not use her weapon on any non supernatural, this includes latent Immortals, preferring to hope that they will live, and die, peacefully. The Second Rule is she will not issue a challenge to a Young Immortal, preferring to teach and guide them, since the Game is no longer played. She will disregard this rule for an evil or power hungry Immortal. The last rule is that she will not stand by while people are in danger, save for a duel between two immortals.
STERILE[]
Kira is unable to bear children, even though other functions of 'Mortality' happen, childbirth is apparently not one of them.
The Beggining[]
Time, is it all we have anymore? Maybe I should start with my name, I'm Wu Xi-Fang, and I've been alive for over five hundred years. So far as I can guess, there aren't many of us left older then me and a few others, but their story is their own, and this is my story. I was born in 1482 I believe it was February 18, or there abouts, I was told it was closest to the end of winter. My family wasn't rich, but we were not poor. My childhood is a blur, though I learned of herbs, and proper things a woman who was to be a housewife would know, and I was arranged to marry Wu Zhou, the son of the province lord, we were wed, and lived a relatively happy life, I gave him two sons and a daughter, and I thought my life was complete, until our village and mansion was attacked. They wanted whatever value they could get from us, and I was killed by an arrow through the heart. I died watching my children run with their caretaker, next to the body of my husband. It was the end...
Immortal Risen[]
...Or so I thought. I woke up with a Shaolin monk tending to my wound, which closed rapidly. He had a knowing look on his face, and near him I kept hearing this buzz sound at the back of my mind. He told me about my new life as an immortal, but gave me a few days to mourn before he was to take me to a nearby shaolin temple, for training he said. I learned that my husband was an immortal as well, apparently he had died six years prior. I laid my late husband to rest, and looked for signs of my children, I couldn't find them, and while I miss them, to this day, I like to think that they lived a full life. Life in the temple was not easy, waking up at the rise of the sun and starting my training, I went from a domestic housewife entertaining guests and tending to chores, to breaking down my body and building it back up, harder, faster, this training lasted for thirty hears, me nor my 'teacher' aged one bit, and finally, when we were on a walk, he explained to me that he had grown weary of living, and that perhaps it was his time, I of course didn't want to believe this, but he challenged me to a duel, I was certain I would loose, but in the end, I stood victorious, and earned my first quickening... it was a rush, something I've never felt before, and all his knowledge flowed into me, his experience flowed into me. I knew with this that I should make my own journey, so I took his sword, and bid my home farewell. One of the best things I gained from my Teacher, was that I could Manipulate Quickening to make myself stronger and faster.
Birth of a Rivalry[]
I traveled across china after that, honing my skill by hunting supernaturals, having learned about them in my time and choosing to study them, though, quite a bit of immortals decided to challenge me during this time, I learned a lot, and gain no small amount of knowledge from them, though, even though the quickening gave me quite a rush, I knew that each good feeling, was brought on by a death, and I began to dislike the thought of killing as a way of life. In 1650, I decided to travel to Japan, there I learned of Bushido and the use of the katana, I also married a simple blacksmith, keeping myself hidden while I delved into books and the healing arts. Every once in a while another immortal would find me, and I would have to fight, one such immortal, called Kaizer, a Russian thug, killed my husband, my second one, to get me to fight him, and I did, though, he knew he couldn't win, and fled the fight before I could take is head. It's when I realized, that Kaizer, also, killed my first husband, thought I couldn't find him, should he ever cross my path, I will not hesitate to take his head.
Wandering[]
I left my life in Japan and began traveling across the world, going to places like Italy, Paris, London, and coming across many different supernaturals, as well as quite a few Immortals who were so focused on the game that I had no choice but to fight them, eventually, I made my way to the New World in the 1700's, learning more about healing and being one with nature from the natives. Eventually I was a Medic in the American revolution, and forging west after the war, exploring the untamed wilds, barely avoiding the civil war. I eventually ended up In what they called the Old west, as a bounty hunter and medic for a small town, not overly shocked when other Chinese people began to migrate to the new world. Most of my bounties were mortals, but I brought them in alive, the immortals however, mostly evil, were brought in dead. Eventually, I settled in Los Angeles during the 1920s, I would offer help to Immortals who asked for it, and made it clear that I had no intention of fighting, that didn't stop people, but I gave them the chance to walk away. I watched as America became more liberal, as the generations became more open and accepting, and I watched as supernaturals became more bold, I was content with my life, until 1985.
Changing the Game[]
Many Immortals made the rush for New York City. The Gathering was happening, an end to the game, and everyone wanted the Prize, myself included. I myself claimed three heads in Boston before going about my business towards NYC, amazingly, Connor MacLeod and The Kurgan were dueling, and I was ready to face the winner. Connor had won, and earned enough Quickening to get the Prize, and he changed the rules, no more game, no more real reason for us to fight. For the first time since my first death, I felt at peace. I wanted to thank him, but I opted to return home to LA, where I opened my first Tea Shop. The last thirty years didn't stop Immortals from fighting for the sake of power, but it was much more rare. I kept tabs on things going on, and decided to fight the good fight by hunting demons and other nasties, eventually, I relocated to Beacon Hills, Opened the Green Leaf Teahouse, and simply watch as things go on, though, I have a feeling that I shall have to cast my lot with the 'good guys', I'm immortal for a reason, and since that reason changed in 1985, why not use the things I'm really good at to help those in need?