...screw it. Here we go. Soldiers of Light Interest/Sign-Up Thread

[Red Mage Black]

To add a note here. Make all the characters female and we got ourselves a Touhou game. We got ourselves everything from humans, to yokai, to demons and even spirits. I think the only thing we're missing is fairies and an oni.

Correction, we have an ice sidhe. All we're missing is an Oni.

[PhoenixFlame]

Originally Posted by Red Mage Black

To add a note here. Make all the characters female and we got ourselves a Touhou game. We got ourselves everything from humans, to yokai, to demons and even spirits. I think the only thing we're missing is fairies and an oni.

Correction, we have an ice sidhe. All we're missing is an Oni.

I can even Danmaku. Dohohoho~

[Sithdarth]

Name: Senken no Akira
Side: Light
Race: Human
Age: 40ish (He doesn't even remember)
Appearance: Akira is about average height and a little on the thin side. He generally wears the robes of a traveling Shinto monk and uses an usual looking walking stick. The most notable thing about him is the blindfold he wears to hide the fact that he no longer has eyes.

Weapons: That unusual walking stick is actually a specially crafted conduit for his Ki and his primary weapon.

Special Skill: Second Sight - Akira has the slightly heightened senses generally associated with the blind but beyond that he also has the ability to sense the spirits of the things around him which allows for a kind of sight (he definitely won't be reading anything or seeing colors though). His walking stick acts as a sort of conduit enhancing this ability allowing him to sense things clearly in a 10 ft radius circle. Beyond that radius things quickly become indistinct and he must rely on his other senses. Without the walking stick he can barely make things out at 4 ft. This second sight also allows him to see the flow of Ki in living beings which means that while he is unaffected by light levels a large release of Ki will have about the same effect as a flash bomb.

Supernatural Aikido - Essentially a variant of Aikido with the addition that his second sight allows Akira to slowly disrupt the Ki flow of his opponents. This disruption can have effects ranging from a decrease in physical ability to internal organ damage. The disruption accumulates slowly over time so the effects are rarely noticeable at first. Akira generally prefers to subdue his opponents so he generally only fights until they are weak enough for him to overpower. The special nature of his walking stick (i.e. its ability to channel Ki) allows him to use it as an extension of his own body to disrupt the Ki flow of his opponents.

History: Akira was a Shinto monk in training when it became clear that the forces of evil were once again massing. The leaders of his shrine asked for a volunteer to undergo a ritual that would give the volunteer the ability to fight the evil and help purify the world. They warned that a great sacrifice would be needed as part of the ritual. Akira had come to the shrine as an orphan after an encounter with an evil Kami resulted in the death of his parents. As such he was very eager to gain the ability to destroy evil. This ritual is the origin of Akira second sight and the reason he no longer has eyes. It is also the origin of his name. After the completion of the ritual the monks told him that he was now Senken no Akira and that he should travel and search for companions that would help him purify the world. As a parting gift he was given the walking stick he now uses.

Extra: The walking stick is a bit more durable than your average stick given its unique origin and the presence of Akira's Ki. If it is ever destroyed it can be replaced but only with great effort. Akira would need to find a very old tree with a very strong spirit and convince it to willingly give him a branch. That branch must then be ritually purified over several days before it can be used as a conduit for Ki. The result is a piece of wood that is still alive despite being detached from a tree. However, if it loses contact with Akira for more than a day the wood will begin to die. Once dead the wood is useless as a conduit and must be replaced.

Sorry it took so long to get this together. I thought I was more settled on an idea than I actually was.

[Raiden]

Lot of people with walking sticks. Looking forward to when they eventually get mixed up.

Sith: Approved.

Lazy: Approved

Steel: More or less, though this adds something about magic I should also point out for everyone.

I'm typing between client shifts and nursing a headbutt to the chin so I can't be arsed to go back and read the first post explanation of the game (which honestly is mostly a copy-paste of my last one four years ago), but magic works one of two ways in the game. First way is if you're a demon, then you have your own magical well to draw upon. If you're human, though, you have no inherent magical power. What you have to do is draw upon the power of Kami, which are the elemental spirits around you. That can be done either amicably through pacts with a certain element, or it can be stolen through darker rituals. For fluff it's essentially the same results, just that if you get too used to stealing power from Kami they'll get pretty pissed off.

What that also means, though, is that human magic users have to be more aware of their surroundings. If you're, say, on a boat in the ocean? Water Kami will be abundant, so Water Magic will be really powerful. Fire Kami? Not so much. So have to be aware of the environment you're in.