I'm going to be a catgirl, nyaaa!
Name: Hakeshi Masumi
Side: Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again!
Race: Demon
Appearance: A tall, heartbreakingly beautiful seductress with long black hair, pale skin and amber eyes. Masumi dresses finely and usually carries a parasol. Typically affecting a cheerful, polite demeanour, she shows a completely different face when angered. Her true form is a giant, demonic cat.
Weapons:
Seven Lives Stolen: A rolled up bundle of seven swords, their hilts wrapped in human hair. Each one is the sword of a slain samurai, their furious, restless spirit bound within. On Masumi's command, they come alive, flying at her enemies. Knocking one to the ground immobilises it. She usually conceals the blades in her parasol
Cursed Seals: Enchanted paper slips that create an explosion or unleash minor curses on contact.
Special Skills:
Nekomata: Masumi is really a gigantic two tailed cat with the power to take on human form, create ghostly fire and reanimate the dead to manipulate them like puppets. Masumi does not care to show her true form often. She needs to eat flesh and drink blood to change back into her human form and the transformation is strenuous. She can let minor features surface, such as her ears, tail, claws, teeth and eyes, and they will if she gets careless.
Demon Mystic: Masumi has studied spiritual teachings to develop her powers to bewitch the living; toying with their minds and cursing their bodies. Much like a priestess, she can use her spiritual powers to use mudras, perform divination, create wardings, ofuda and seals and other such magical items. She is especially skilled at using necromancy to bind spirits.
History: A cat that lives too long can be infected with a profound malice. As she strays into ghostly realms, she grows to an immense size, her tail splits into two and she develops strange powers of fire, death and mysticism. Masumi is one such creature. Once just a calico cat, she wanders the land like a plague wrapped in a beguiling form distilled from countless deaths. She likes to worm her way into a trusted position and bring it all down around her.
Extra: Masumi can create the Coal-Wrapping Red Rags, which allow her to seal and safely handle holy objects. She has a pouch containing a handful of forlorn, mad ghosts. She can release one and artfully indicate how an enemy resembles the person they crave revenge against. Her catskin bag allows her to carry some things with her when she changes back to her true form.
Masumi fights like a buzzsaw but she is really something of a coward. If she becomes convinced she can't win, she'll back down.