Post by Misao "Claire" Redfield on Dec 28, 2011 1:21:38 GMT -5
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Name:Misao ”Claire” Redfield (goes by her birth name, Misao).
Nicknames:Mia, Mio, claire
Age:She herself is uncertain of her own age, but is now well over a century old, her best guess is over 130 years. However, she physically appears to be in her 20's still.
Gender:Female
Affiliation:Heart of light
Canon or Original:original
Sexual Orientation:Lesbian, despite her thing for Rune
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[/size]Height:5' 7"
Weight:135 lbs
Hair Color/Style: She has blue hair, which she usually keeps tied back in a long braid.
Face Claim:Karura (Utawarerumono [anime]), Seras (the fallen angel in her sword) is Kamyu also the show
Brief Overview:Despite all she’s been through, she still maintains a physical beauty. Her naturally good healing has made it that all the scars on her body are almost completely invisible. She has pointy cat like ears, the same light black color as her long hair with dark blue eyes. Her cat tail has fur similar in color to her skin with the tip black like her hair. Although she has gotten it to hang normally (straight down), she has a habit of wrapping it around her waist, a position it was conditioned to be in 24/7 on her home world so it didn’t “get in the way”
Surprisingly, her clothes have held up rather nicely even in the harsh conditions. It consists of the outer robe, meant really only to cover her lower half and her shoulders a bit (contrary to popular belief, it actually cant close over to cover her more). Below that however, she does have a top that covers her front enough that she was able to be decent when she was sent out in public. And honestly, she’s tried clothes she’s stolen, but especially since she can’t take the collar off to her knowledge, this is the only clothing she’s comfortable in now. Rune has attempted to get her to ware other clothing. However, she still refuses to wear anything but this outfit, Rune having relented and simply had others like it made, and in some different colors. [/left][/size]
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[/size]Likes: Girls, Hild, her Elven friend, anyone who’s nice, especially to her, when she can take a bath, children, Rune, Her daughter, Being Rune's servant/bodyguard
Dislikes: Most men (at least at first), small spaces, the dark, feeling alone, having to keep the piece of around her neck on (at least she thinks she does.), having her tail yanked (well, she does like it, but that’s why she doesn’t, if you catch the drift)
Strengths: Naturally fast healing, incredible strength, incredibly fast
Weaknesses: Still not good with the dark, still pretty bad at magic, small spaces, still frightened by the chain around her neck coming off, Still not very educated or bright (despite Runes best attempts)
Weapons:
Zanbato - not the weapons actual name, but more it's type. It's an incredibly long and heavy blade honestly meant to be used against Calvary. She had Hild make it for her because she felt that her faux fenrir was becoming too light, and she wasn't always great at maintaining it, and when using a standard sword, she often snapped the blade because of her strength. Like many of Hild's more recent creations it has it's own spirit but a difference is it doesn't really bind to the user. Not really a problem though because of it's weight. Hild, having the powers of a deity could lift it, however, no one else present except Misao was able to lift it when it was presented to her. At first she had difficulty using it, but soon began to use it effortlessly. Being as it could be enchanted, she asked Hild to do none, but to make it heavier, and has had her do so several times, Not about to ask her to undo any level at all till she comes to a point her strength is at it's limit and she can't become strong enough to use it effectively. Though despite the fact she can swing the blade hard enough to pulverize good sized boulders or even the ground, using the sword is still considered her holding back, seeing as it's size and weight slows her down a bit. If she let's go of it, her speed is incredible and almost as scary as her strength. Hild has commented that the blade does have a single release, but either Misao has not mastered it... or chosen to not show it.
Fenrir (copy) - One of the key blade look-a-likes the white hair woman in the town made. What she over heard was that it was too heavy for people, and while she had planned to take something from the shop anyway, she was strangely drawn to this, and since she could pick it up, made off with it. Though, she’s still a bit clumsy at using it.
Overview: Not much has changed in her personality over the decades. She is still nervous around new people and prone to running, or if Rune is present cowering behind him like a child, and shes still afraid to have the collar removed. Although she's become slightly less feral on the outside, much of that still remains even after living in a castle. Once you get past it that sweet and gentle kitten is there.
She has retained her curiosity and playfulness through all the years, something that surprises most people. She has tried to learn new things and become smarter, but she finds it all incredibly hard. For that reason she often becomes somewhat jealous of her daughter who happens to be fairly bright and educated, especially when compared to her, so she tends to in response show off how strong she is, seeing as while smart and gifted with magic thanks to her father's genes, she can't match in raw strength. Part of it is a fear that Rune might feel she would serve him better, though he has said openly he has no intention of replacing her. She also has a bit of a temper when it comes to her master Rune and her daughter, and for other various reasons too shown it. Although her being somewhat polarized between the nice kind, and incredibly child friendly usual self and the enraged berzerker of a woman when shes finally pushed too far has made it that she can no longer wield her keyblade at this point, also terrified of misusing her power, she is very very scary when she gets angry. Especially the bit when her eyes turn red and she brings out that over sized black sword.
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Siblings: 7 older siblings, 3 younger half siblings
Homeworld:Dark continent, Eternal forest (now bastion of light and shadow)
Overview: Misao was born amongst one of the “wild” tribes of “cat demons” as the humans of her land called them. Meaning she had certain cat traits, and didn’t live in a village that was fixed in location. Then again, the only ones who did were slaves. Her kind was always on the move, trying to stay one step ahead of all the people that hunted their kind and others. They managed to stay free, till one day when she was 12, her family got caught.
During a storm, there family had gotten separated from the others, and of all places wandered into a camp of hunters that had been tracking them. They tried to run, but they were all captured, and a couple days later put on the auction block. Of her parents, and 7 siblings, only her mom and herself were kept together. But then again, they were the least desirable at the time, since well, her mom was a mom, and at that point, Misao was too young, even if not by much, for what most people bought female slaves for. Though, her new master changed her name to something he found more fitting, and could say properly, which was Claire (not having a last name as it was, she inherited his, since it also helped ID her if she had ever run away).
For that ever so brief time, they simply had her set tables, help with chores, all those things, but once she was of age, they immediately changed what she was used for. And if that wasn’t bad enough already, they took advantage of the fact she was more durable and healed faster then elves, humans, and the like, making her time there that much worse. But there were a couple small lights within her living hell.
She made close friends with another of the girl’s, an elf, who had long since forgotten her name, and was simply used to responding to “girl” or “elf wench” or any other number of names. The two started off simply as friends, but given the nature of where they were, and how cruel her masters were, it did develop into something more, though still very complex. They did have feelings for one another, but it sometimes got lost as just being the job or something formed from it. The other surprisingly enough was her master’s wife, a white haired woman she knew as Ryoko. For what ever reason, she seemed to take pity on Misao, and as often as she could, had Misao and her friend act as her servants, mostly only to do trivial chores, but honestly didn’t even make them do that. She simply seemed to have a desire to help the two of them.
But then, some mad king on another continent brought the heartless to their world, or perhaps they had been there, and he simply made it worse. Even her master had turned down the hooded mans offer. But the darkness spread, and her master and several other’s took it as a sign that the gods were displeased, and felt an “offering” was needed to appease them and stop the destruction of their world. So when her master and several others got together, he thought she’d be the best offering, which given the rather backwards nature of her continent to other’s, ended with her and the others losing there heads after the rest of what happened.
But it wasn’t quite her time, since the next thing she remembered was someone saying to make sure her collar stayed on, and when she opened her eyes, she saw a crying but relieved friend over her, and before everything went black again as the world fell to darkness, she was pretty sure the other person was her master’s wife Ryoko, but she couldn’t be sure, especially since what she had done was an incredibly high level of magic.
They landed on a strange world, and while she was too weak to do much still, her friend who wasn’t much better went off to get help, but never actually came back within a couple days. Misao assumed the worst and chose to stay away the best she could, not realizing her friend had simply collapsed by the time she made it there and was out cold for days. She still remembered everything from being out in the wild as a child, so survival wasn’t much of an issue. She started to take the collar off, but vaguely remembered what the woman said, and knew that while she wasn’t skilled with magic, that a spell like this usually needed something to keep the two pieces of body together, so she left it alone, though became terrified if something ever happened to it. She occasionally looked in at the town below, but mostly stayed away, and ran if she was spotted. Even when she snuck aboard a gummi ship as that world too fell, and when they returned to that world, she acted the same, many people beginning to think she was some ghost or spirit attached to the world and it’s inhabitants.
From what she’s seen, most of the people of this world are nice, but she still doesn’t feel safe, but because of that, and necessity with much of the world in ruin, she sneaks into the town more often to dig for scraps or steal food, but vanishes just as quick. One day when in town, she had wanted to take a better weapon for fighting off heartless. And as she came to the one shop she knew, she felt drawn to the bin where the woman that owned it put weapons that were incomplete or no good, that would be recycled. And for once, it was actually unlocked, she over heard her and an assistant arguing over something she’d put in, the white hair woman claiming it was too heavy to use. Misao was drawn to what was undoubtedly the weapon since it looked complete and absolutely perfect. Though as she looked in the window so she wouldn’t be caught, she swore the woman, though too old, looked like her masters wife Ryoko. Not only that, but it looked like when she glanced over without turning her head she knew Misao was there, and that she had forgotten to lock it on purpose so she could have it. She reached her hand out to grab it, but ran away afraid as it suddenly vanished.
Later that day after it had rained, she went to the usual spot she bathed since it was the only one deep enough and had some warmth to it from underground pipes, and as she thought of the disapointment of not getting I, it appeared in her hand again. So naturally, she dropped it and scream in surprise, though, she picked it up, and started toying with it, making it vanish and reappear several times, almost amused with it as a toy. She does practice with it once in a while (if she doesn’t get distracted by its ability to vanish and reappear in her hand), but still hasn’t really approached the people of what she’s heard them call Hollow bastion. Though, she pauses a little more usually before she run’s away, but then again, her natural instinct when she sees a male (which seems to be the ones tat are in her areaa the most).
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After meeting a very nice brown haired lady named Aerith, and scared by a man named Cloud, she ended up staying in the town more often, frequently going by the white haired sword makers place seeing as she seemed so familiar. Though, there was this girl Raina that hung around often that kept her at bay. Misao never caused trouble, it seemed that the girl liked pulling on her tail and... suggesting things. Despite her preference to women, the girl reminded her a little too much of home. Though, it appeared that the woman's grandson was able to keep her in check when he started to visit more often. She was of course scared of him because he was male, very cold, and she could sense the darkness around him. But over time, she began to see he wasn't as cold and emotionless as she first thought, and while there was still darkness, there was light, and even than despite the darkness he always tried to do the right thing, if not by the right means, but she understood why when others didn't.
She knew better than most why he disregarded certain rules and laws. On her continent, her people had no rights, they weren't considered humans, or at least sentient. The laws said they could be captured and sold as slaves. The laws said that slaves had no rights, that despite saying no anyone could do as they pleased to a slave. The law even condoned or embraced many of the perverse rituals. She knew first hand what those with power could be like, how they abused laws and legal systems for themselves. Many thought he just wanted total anarchy, but all he really wanted was to do the right thing. It made her wonder that if one person had decided to defy the laws of her home, would she have maybe suffered less, or not at all.
Though, another thing became abundantly clear. She was aware Rune was by no means "human", he looked human, acted human, seemed human, but people of his family were known even in her home world. Elves, dragons, angels, demons, vampires, werewolves, even her own kind. So many different races ran through his blood, but she found out the hard way he had actually been partially turned into something not quite vampire or... well what she knew as a wolf demon, which she eventually learned he was almost turned, but it was stopped and simply woke the traits in his blood up, making him a lot like her at times, but unlike her having the occasional craving for blood. It also turned out they both were on similar time lines as to when they lost control and became a bit more feral. Something that proved to be... mutually beneficial.
After a couple years, Hild told her that her and the woman she knew as Ryoko were actually at the same time both totally different and yet the same person. She's never truly been able to fully comprehend it, but she accepts it. Though, as far as she knows as well Misao has to keep the collar around her neck on. But after learning this, she initially went to assume her role as Hild's servant, but Hild told her to serve as Rune's servant. There were several reasons for it, some of them mischievous but of course she did it without question. At first, Rune had a tendency for trying to lose her since she followed him everywhere and called him master. He'd often yell at her to stop it and to call him by name, something that seldom happened, but eventually he grew to at least tolerate it better. For Misao, especially with someone she knew was from a far upper class than hers, viewing herself as an equal to that person was nigh impossible. She always made sure she stayed close when they were in a fight to make sure nothing happened to him, having actually grown fond of her new master. Which is why when he shoved her out of the way of an attack and took the full force of it himself, she finally summoned the real fenrir keyblade. From that day on till the final battle, she wielded it in battles, but that last battle would be one of the last times she would use it. In that fight, the person that split in two so that that girl that always pulled her tail and all got killed. Much like Rune she lost her temper, and the results utterly terrified her of her own power. She at one point in her wild swinging was disarmed, and didn't bother re summoning it but jumped to using her bear hands and claws. She finished the fighting without it, finding herself at that moment unable to call upon it, and while for a little after the fighting she was fine, once she calmed back down to normal was when it went to hell. When the dust cleared, she was soaked head to toe in the blood of those she had gone after, even when not having used the claws her raw strength enough to destroy ones body or remove limbs. The fact she could do this scared her, so she did everything she could to suppress her temper, and be the nice sweet cat girl everyone knew. Something that threw off her inner balance of light and dark and resulted in her having to use standard weapons again.
A few years after that fight, now living in Rune's castle, she gave birth to a daughter, the product of one of those nights where animal instinct won over reason for the both of them. But during the pregnancy and the following years, she chose to say she was the product of a night with someone else. Not because Rune might be angry, send her away, she knew for fact that it would be the opposite. Rune had grown attached to her as well, and had even gone as far to ask her to marry him, something he'd undoubtedly do again and perhaps be more forceful about if he learned the truth. But that was why she'd never let him know. She really did care for him, and probably enough so to marry him, but she couldn't ever feel the same way. She was unable to view him as anything else but her master, that was there relationship in her mind and couldn't be anything more. Not to mention she didn't want to cause much trouble for him, it wasn't uncommon for members of his family to marry "commoners", but when he first posed the question to her, many of his advisers pointed out that marrying a slave girl like her would cause problems, Rune of course not caring with how he viewed the world. To him, something like marrying a former slave that chose to serve him was nothing, but to other leaders and people it would seem wrong, or that he wasn't worthy of being a king and leader, so many other views. Which only helped her make the choice to say no.
But, she couldn't hide the secret from her daughter forever. The girls senses were getting better, and one day while visiting with Hild who at the time wasn't at the castle thankfully, She realized her scent wasn't that different from her own. Hild already knew of course (perks of having a deity's connections and powers), but her daughter couldn't be stopped from putting two and two together. There was initially some anger towards her mom for lying to both her and her father for those years, but Hild finally got through to her. She explained what her mother had gone through before in her life, how she viewed things and all, as well as some of the implications of telling her father or anyone else for that matter about her heritage. She understood fully why after that, and agreed to be quite about it, and while she had always sort of viewed Rune as a father figure since he was always taking care of her and her mom regardless, it didn't change much other than her being slightly more affectionate and accidently calling him dad or father on occasion. Thankfully explained away by how he acted and he and others simply believed it was a matter of viewpoint for her.
It was also in this time she asked for a replacement weapon from Hild, one that didn't require maintenance nor feel too light. In this Hild killed two birds with one stone so to speak. She made the blade to her specifications, but added something more. An old friend of hers had come with some trouble. She like herself had once been an angel, however that being said, she had been far more...vocal about things. and when she she ended up in one of the other realms... well, her attitude got her thrown out of their as well. Problem was she wasn't like Hild and couldn't stay on the etheral plain for extended times. She was reaching her limit of time, so she agreed to be embedded into the sword as it's spirit, and to protect Misao and by extension Rune. A far better fate than vanishing.. and a chance to be evil once in a while was a bonus. Though, the girl was just a little slow on the learning curve.
At one point while escorting Rune back, her and his guards were attacked. Rune was knocked out at the start by a blast, and it took many of the guards out as well. The couple remaining fell quickly which left only her. She knew she'd down a few, but couldn't take them all down. That was till a series of words made it to her head, and found herself saying "Shadow winds of the etheral realms, Cut through the fading stars so they may burn anew, Seras" There was a flash of light as her blade changed it's form, keeping it's unusal length, but taking a more standard eastern blade shape, and becoming far thinner and lighter. And a woman of short silver hair and black angel wings stood with her back to Misao's. When Misao asked her name, she said "you already spoke it", before addressing the men attacking them and gave them the option to flee before she let loose. They failed to listen, and while she had plenty of strength, she used far more magic to Misao's surprise. The pair as a team were able to defeat them all. As Rune stirred, the silvered hair woman said not to mention her before vanishing. When she later asked Hild of this, she admitted that the two were essentially meant to be partners. Misao had the potential for magic but for some reason could not use it, where as Seras while in the sword absorbed the energy so as to maintain her existence and power. She also confided that could she use the magic herself, and that with this blade at her side, she wielded more power than Rune. He could use some magic, but in a fight that relied heavily on it, he could not prevail unless he got close enough for a blade. His power was meant to be an offensive shield for his sister, to delay long enough for her to cast her more powerful spells, while on the reverse he could be the sword and she shield him with magic. On his own the only way to come close was for he and Toa to separate, Toa having far more skill in magic than he, but that then meant he could not use his bloodline ability and full power. She lacked that problem, and had more raw strength and power then him, and understood why Seras had said to not mention her at all. Rune had been unconscious, so naturally he couldn't fight, or know what happened, she had said the other guards had done enough for her to finish up. She knew if he learned she had more power than him, that he would crumble. Not for the fact that she was a woman, or that she was at one time a slave. But because he had vowed to protect her, his sister, his people. To learn that she was meant to protect him, that her power exceeded his own, that he was unable to fulfill his promise on his own... she had seen his reaction to her having the raw strength to lift this blade. She had always sort of disregarded it, but his pride would be shattered, and to look so weak to those that looked up to him. She began to understand a deeper reason for Hild's order to serve him. Because she was so obedient, so nice, so loyal, she could keep these secrets, help Rune appear as something more. Because she could make the choices that were better for others than herself. Rune could lead, but he wasn't really a ruler, the kind to be king. Not for being weak or inept.. but because when you broke it down he was too soft and kind. He tried to hard to do it all on his own, he never wanted to put others in harms way, to ignore one person for the better of all, to put his emotions aside when making a decision. He stood firm behind his beliefs, beliefs that all wanted to follow, but that hurt him for the other reasons. His desire to marry her before hand being the best example. He knew Misao would be happy, he cared about her, but for his desire for her happiness, he would risk alienating allies. She knew her work was cut out for her, but she was sure she could get it done.
So for decades, she stayed loyally and faithfully by his side. She was more or less like his shadow, almost anywhere she was, she was behind him. Even that day when they traveled to the dark continent. She hated being there as it was, but when things got crazy, she was going to release her swords power, seeing no reason to hold back, By this point Rune had acknowledged she was getting stronger and would hopefully not crumble as much. But when it really mattered, she froze for no other reason than being terrified. It came to a point that Rune and her daughter had to help her away while the other two body guards helped hold them off. The time before the invasion, she begun doubting herself, knowing she had been afraid, but not why it caused her to hesitate. Protecting Her daughter and rune should have helped her get past it regardless and not even that. With some help she got her head clear enough to fight when they invaded, and for when it became clear this was a losing war. Rune couldn't accept that though, he was determined to keep fighting. Hild had been there fighting on the continent, just as she had, but no one could get him to listen, though, that was till Misao had enough. Rune snapped at her and called her a coward, and seeing as he was already in his released form after his sister challenged she'd fight him, she didn't hold back when she punched, at least not much. He went cratering through two stone walls before he got himself corrected and came right back after her. Even without her strength, he was angry and careless, she took him down easily. That was what finally snapped him back to reality. That he was being rash, not thinking things through. He finally agreed that it was over and came up with the idea to seal the world away.
When the time came, she was adamant to stay at his side, but Rune shoved her through the passage way off the world, doing this held the risk of them being trapped and she had no desire to leave him. Once reunited, she opted to stay by his side, as did her daughter. The other two guards, one who she had become close to, they followed a bit, but at times broke off to help while Rune would choose to move on. And it was during one of these incidents, after encountering more and more heartless, she encountered the sister from what should have been her sealed home world. Her and her daughter were caught off guard, and quickly knocked out. When she awoke, Toa was hovering over her, before she wheeled around on Rune and berated him for apparently losing control. Shes not sure what exactly happened, but Rune has been a tad more irritable since, but over all much like his old self.. no stronger than his old self. Hild once told Misao that Rune was like a sword that lacked a sheath, and with that Rune back, she finds herself once again resuming that role, one she may keep the rest of her days unless he gets a wife that can fill that role. But it's suffice to say that she'll still be around... he's her master after all.
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