====== Mirie Kurokaze ======

An ancient, shapeshifting super soldier created by Ashiaver's sárkány to subjugate the other species of the planet. She is opposed to this purpose, and has spent the entirety of her lifetime adopting false identities, faking her own deaths, and trying to find peace with herself.

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| Information ||
| Species | [[shards:ashiaver#okori%E2%80%8B_creation_by_approval_only_%E2%80%8B|Ókori]] |
| Nation | [[shards:ashiaver|Ashiaver]] |
| Age | 310 |
| Height | 172 cm |
| Weight | 65 kg  |
| Eye Color | Emerald |
| Hair Color | Black |

===== History =====

  * The ókori were super soldiers made by the sárkany, which backfired and put a hold on their rule.
  * As time marched, a nameless Mirie was drawn to the Navi, due to her appearance coincidentally resembling the common people of that nation.
  * Throughout the ages, she became somewhat of a cryptid, named "the Kurokaze" ("Black Wind"). 
  * In folk legends, the Kurokaze is a spirit that manifests itself as various animals, always with black fur. In tales, its moral alignment is mixed. Often it is malevolent, but sometimes it aids or even saves the characters who encounter it. 
  * Obscure tales make the Kurokaze an ókori, a kind of spirit and powerful trickster of legend that shifts between many forms.
  * When traveling outside of her local area, she calls herself "Mirie Kurokaze", the first name of which has wholesome connotations. She is only able to do this because the Kurokaze is a legend local to the True Navi and does not ring bells elsewhere. 

==== Previous Identities ====

=== Early Life ===
**Period:** [[universe:calendar|3190-3202 GC]] (12 years)

During this period, Kurokaze lived purely in the wilds. As she was juvenile for the first couple of years of this identity, this is rather astonishing. 

=== Mirie/Minato Hashimoto ===
**Period:** [[universe:calendar|3202-3251 GC]] (49 years)

Kurokaze is adopted and trained by a war veteran of the family name “Hashimoto”. He names her “Mirie” at first. After having trained her for some time, determined by his perceived potential in her, it becomes clear that she would have to adopt a new identity in order to pursue her talents. For this reason, she would flip between the identities of “Mirie” and “Minato”, taking the name of her sensei. 

=== Shun Nagasawa ===
**Period:** [[universe:calendar|3251-3277 GC]] (36 years)

After the death of her sensei, and her apparent lack of aging, she went into an existential crisis and faked her own death. From here, she adopted a new identity and served as a soldier. During this time, she fell in love with a woman. This identity did not “live” long enough to marry.

=== Yumiko Hashimoto ===
**Period:** [[universe:calendar|3277-3328 GC]] (51 years)

After going missing in action, Kurokaze retired the identity of Shun Nagasawa and posed as a daughter of her previous identity, Mirie Hashimoto. She put aside her training as a warrior during this time and made an attempt to settle down and enter society with the public identity of a woman. She had 2 husbands and despite her best efforts, could not produce children from either of them.  

=== Reo Okamoto ===
**Period:** [[universe:calendar|3328-3370 GC]] (42 years)

[[https://projectmultiverse.net/threads/the-last-of-his-daughter.86/|Kurokaze attempts suicide]]. Having survived, she fabricates her death once again, and forges a new identity as a male. This time, she returns to her martial training to refamiliarize herself with the changing military climate. Near the end of this period, she was discovered to be female and forced to retire the identity. 

=== The Kurokaze (Black Wind) ===
**Period:** [[universe:calendar|3370-3387 GC]] (17 years)

Inspired by the legends she is certain were propagated by her slip ups throughout the years, Kurokaze performs an experiment. She fakes her death as Reo Okamoto, and retreats to the wilds. Here, she adopts an identity as a vaesan, attempting to get closer to her true identity as an ókori that she had lost over the last century. This ended after an incident where a large battalion of soldiers were ordered to kill her under the assumption that she was a monster. The incident resulted in 14 casualties out of the 30 soldiers sent to slay her. 

=== Naoki Sasaki ===
**Period:** [[universe:calendar|3387-3417 GC]] (30 years)

Coming uncomfortably close to death, and morally disturbed by the number of innocent men she had to kill to survive, Mirie discarded her identity as The Kurokaze and rejoined society as a male hunter of vaesan, utilizing her new found knowledge of the weaknesses in the true navis offenses and defenses. This identity had to be discarded after some got dangerously close to both uncovering her identity as a woman and all of her others.

=== Mio Hashimoto ===
**Period:** [[universe:calendar|3417-3453 GC]] (36 years)

Since some time had passed since she last settled, Kurokaze became exhausted and seeked life as a woman, faking the death of her last identity again, this time in a meticulously planned duel. This time, she enlisted the aid of members of the Hashimoto family, explaining her situation despite the shock and awe she would receive from doing so. Together, they forged a fake birth and abandonment that was proposed to have happened  20 years prior. With this, she once again attempted life as a civilian woman and married. She did not have any children. 

=== Jirou Yagami ===
**Period:** [[universe:calendar|3453-3500 GC]] (47 years)

After the death of her last husband, she embraced the life of an outcast and ran to the wilds. She dressed as a man and took the place of a lowly sellsword.

=== Mirie Kurokaze ===
**Period:** [[universe:calendar|3270 GC - Current]]

Throughout the entirety of her life, Kurokaze has used this identity in a number of variations. She only uses it outside of Tyria, and uses it most prominently precisely every 50 years, when she pilgrimages across Praeth. Her first use of the identity was at age 80.

===== Appearance =====

  * Solid black hair (black fur when shifted)
    * Long and wavy, goes down to her waist.
  * Emerald eyes (same as when shifted)
    * Wide and glassy
  * White, freckled skin (recessive and uncommon in navi)
  * Thin and light body shape.
    * Hourglass figure, slender and muscular
    * 172 cm tall
    * 65 kg

===== Personality =====

  * Often deadpan and subtle, Mirie Kurokaze is a woman of few words, and an uncanny presence.
  * She can stare down a vaesan without flinching. Whether she can slay one, the stories vary.
  * Mirie is brazen and shameless.
  * Her sense of humor is quite dark and at times morbid.
  * She does not believe ideals are worth killing or going to war for. 
  * Honor is important to her.
  * She feels compelled to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. 
  * Mirie does not see it as stealing if she needs a thing more than someone else does.
  * Once someone questions her courage, she has a bad habit of not backing down even when the situation is dangerous.

===== Forms =====
As an ókori, she can take on the forms of all other demographics of Ashiaver, both partially and fully. 

==== Lycan ====
She can take the form of a black dire wolf. Throughout her life, this has been the only form she could take without drawing suspicion. Otherwise, it is essentially her jack of all trades.

==== Sárkány ====
Thick, defined, black, glistening scales. Stocky build. Long, scraping horns. Wings are long and flowing, tattered on the edges, and guided by a large, powerful third pair of claws. Long, muscular, serpentine tail. “Sonic breath”, a natural air cannon that is powerful enough to break the sound barrier, several times over. Mirie rarely uses this form, often reserving it as a last resort due to its size and strength. She may occasionally use its wings for flight in urgent scenarios.

==== Róka ====
A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_fox_(animal)|silver fox]] ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox|vulpes vulpes]]). She uses her róka form for its sheer speed.

==== Macska ====
A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther#Jaguar|black jaguar]]. This form is used for its significant bite force.

==== Kutyák ====
An east [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wild_dog|african wild dog]]. Mirie uses this form mostly for its exceptional senses.

==== Medve ====
A jett black [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussuri_brown_bear|ussuri brown bear]]. She typically uses this form for feats of strength less urgent than she what she would use her sárkány form for. 

===== Skills =====
Her skills include:

  * Sword mastery
  * Spear mastery
  * Average fletching and archery
  * A profound understanding of warfare throughout Ashiaver's history (she fought in many of its recent wars)
  * Wilderness survival (both as a beast and humanoid)

===== OOC =====

  * **Player** [[user:p0rcelain]] created this on 2022/09/15 05:24.
  * **Can be adopted?** No
  * **Looking for RP?** Yes
  * **Does this content comply with Project Multiverse' setting and submission rules?** Yes