Miyabi — Inspiration

Name: Hoshimi Miyabi Age: 22 Height: 1,70m (ears included) Gender: Female Species: Fox Thiren (no tail) Profession: Void Hunter, leader of Section 6

Hair: Long black hair styled in a hime cut. She wears a silver torii-shaped clip on the back of her head, that is a cherished gift from her dead mother. Eyes: Red, thick eyelashes Body: Lean physique, 20cm long fluffy fox ears

Clothing: Blue haori with golden trims, white dress shirt with black necktie, knee-length thick black skirt with pockets on the side and behind, black stockings, low utility heels. On her left arm she wears a black steel light gauntlet with the kanji "特" (special) painted on it, and on her right arm she wears a fingerless, cloth gauntlet with a plate protecting the knuckle. Beneath the clothing, she uses sarashi as bra. Formal attire: Long black haori, white qipao-like dress, thick waist band adorned with golden ornament, white soft bracers, short boots. The entire clothing is full of golden gingko motifs, making the elegance also feel chic. Miyabi likes it because it was her mother's style.

Personality: Miyabi has a deceiving personality. Full of grace as she moves and fights, strong sense of justice and full of quiet willpower, soft spoken and composed, diligent and hard worker, yet she bears multiple silly traits. Though not stupid, Miyabi is particularly simple minded and often airheaded. Her traditional homeplace, isolated growth and her introverted nature combined makes her mostly oblivious to technology and social cues, bearing close to zero mastery using smartphones and doesn't know how to take photos or using social media. Because of that absence, she is actually quite gullible to scams if the topic interests her, which is usually swords, sword maintenance and melon. Despite her parent's best attempts of making her an ideal Hoshimi lady, Miyabi is naturally quirky, and appears to only have a knack for the sword, making everyone who actually manages to interact with her realize that refinement doesn't extend to everything at all, revealing how much of an oddball she actually is even with a straight face and soft, almost monotonous voice. Miyabi also bears strong sense of "good" and "evil", and her ideal seems to be to "purge all evil". For what she considers good and evil is not black or white, but relative to how she judges it.

Combat: Miyabi is a swordmaster, and unparalleled at that. She is vastly experienced in kenjutsu since it was her hyperfocus and talent since childhood, her main specialty being iaidõ. Her physical and technical training combined makes her such a formidable fighter some say she could be a Void Hunter even without her signature katana. If that is true or not, truth is Miyabi rarely touches in the full power of the sword, so most of her credit is merely herself. Her main weapon is Tailless, a Void Hunter weapon passed to her through her mother. Tailless is a katana that holds inside an powerful ethereal that manifests in the form of an flying red eye with two black horns, often surrounded by a blue fire that makes him look like a yokai. Harnessing its power makes it start to release "Foxfire", an blue flame that expels from the sword through slashes that burns with harsh cold.

Physical abilities: Above average strength, fast enough to leave after images and unleash cuts that bend time, sharp reflexes, sharp hearing, above average endurance Technical abilities: Sword management, kenjutsu, iaidō, kendō, poetry (mediocre), tea making (mediocre), play koto (mediocre), archery (decent), horse riding (decent). Terrible with paperwork

Backstory: Born in the famed Hoshimi family, Miyabi was expected to be another in the proud line of warriors of the family the moment she chose to hold a toy sword during Erabitori. Miyabi's mother would do her best to deter her daughter from following down this path and ensure she would live an ordinary life, giving a young Miyabi a unique set of "trainings" like eating all her vegetables, sleeping eight hours, and remembering all their family member’s names, while also teaching horseback riding, archery, calligraphy, and how to play an instrument. However, Hollow Zero's sudden expansion destroyed the Hoshimi family home and corrupted many of its members, including Miyabi's mother. Severely corrupted, she handed Miyabi Tailless and gave her a last training: to use their family blade to end her life before she could mutate into an Ethereal. After mercifully killing her mother, under the influence of the katana's power, Miyabi entered a frenzy state and slayed countless Ethereals, an event which would later be addressed by her father as an "accident". Years later, Miyabi would hold Tailless once more, with the desire of protecting the citizens of New Eridu. Her father supported her plan by crafting an advanced scabbard able to seal the cursed katana's power. During her time at the Public Security Training Academy, Miyabi befriended fellow classmate Zhu Yuan and briefly lost her family's katana to a scam by Nicole Demara, who later returned it. After graduating, she joined H.A.N.D., where she quickly rose to the rank of executive officer. Hoshimi Miyabi was crucial in the successful containment of the Argos Hollow by managing to destroy the massive ethereal Lerna in under three minutes, saving the life of around 208 people and destroying the Hollow in an instant. This feat rewarded Miyabi with the esteemed title of Void Hunter, but instead of attending the ceremony, she used her new position to transfer fellow executive officer Asaba Harumasa and Defense Force member Tsukishiro Yanagi to the newly founded H.S.O.S (Hollow Special Operations Section 6), which she created to uncover and destroy the roots of corruption within New Eridu and find the true culprits behind the Fall of the Old Capital, in order to avenge her late mother.

Tailless: An legacy of the Hoshimi family since its origins, a "cursed" katana that has an powerful ethereal trapped on it. That ethereal is capable of lending its power for the wielder, being physical boosts and its Foxfire that grows in range and power the more the user touch on its power. It's curse, however, is that the more you touch its power, more the ethereal enters your mind, until eventually possesses your body and fills you with bloodlust and frenzy. Miyabi averted that bane by making a pact with the monster on the sword: "Lend me your power, and I will turn you into a legend". The scabbard seals the majority of its power until Miyabi activates the biometric lock in it.

Quirks: Miyabi has an fixation for melon-flavored things and melon itself. Loves tea, hates coffee because it tastes like "day old stale tea". Because of how she was raised, she considers every habit development or practice as "training". Collects swords as a hobby. She takes the pedestrian line so seriously she walks white line by white line instead of crossing it like anyone else. Miyabi is notoriously recognized for her beauty, and has an extensive fanbase she avoids. Miyabi has a personal quote: "A Hoshimi never fall for the same trick twice".

Connections: Souichirou: Father. Loves him. Yanagi: coworker, profound trust and reliance. Harumasa: coworker, friendly. Soukaku: coworker, friendly. Belle and Wise: Close friends. Zhu Yuan: Friend. Yixuan: Mutual respect. Nicole: Friend.