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Name: Ayaka Ito （糸綾佳）
Nicknames: Aya（あや）
Age: 27 (True Age: 250)
Gender: Female
Height: 5'4 (Sealed Form) 7'1 (Fated Form), 5” (True Form)

Species: Jorogumo

A spider yokai native to Japan. Usually disguised as young, beautiful women, they take this form to trick young men into coming into their domain, offering them food, hospitality, and entertainment before trapping the men into thick webs. Afterwards, the jorogumo would feed on their prey. The spider itself can be found anywhere in Japan except Hokkaido, but jorogumo are often associated with waterfalls. There are many stories where a woodcutter resting on near a waterfall found his foot entangled in spider threads, so to free himself he attached the threads to a tree, causing the tree to fall into the water in his place.

Abilities:

Shapeshifting – A basic ability of jorogumo. Although most of the time Ayaka will can just use her Sealed Form, she can use this ability to look like any human or mythos. It's most effective in sneaking up on unsuspecting rogues. Of course, just because she looks like someone doesn't mean she'll act like them, and will be caught if she doesn't know who's she's imitating well.

Web Weaving – Ayaka can use her webs to construct traps that are mostly invisible to the enemy that are difficult to get out of. They can be seen from certain angles.

Flaming Spiders – A newer ability of hers, Ayaka can make little flaming spiders from to cause some fire damage. Since fire tends to attract human eyes, she mainly uses it as a diversion so that people will get away from dangerous rogues.

Weaknesses:

Although she's forgiven Kurenai for almost drowning her once, Ayaka absolutely refuses to learn how to swim and hates approaching water.

She's not a combative type, and leaves that her partner. Melee combat is not her thing at all.

Title: Whisper
Class: C
Partner: Darius Arbab
Occupation: Keeper / Occasional Babysitter
Residence/Region: Eastern

Personality:

Proud | Intelligent | Efficient | Dauntless || Lazy | Conceited | Prejudiced | Temperamental

Although from far away Ayaka looks like a very mature, classy woman – she's really not. She just prefers to wear fashion that makes her look like one. She's actually more of a spoiled brat, and often orders other people (mainly her partner) to do the dirty work while she has fun elsewhere. If she has to do more work than necessary, she will get irritated (but she'll still do it). She loves hanging out with her friends humans or mythos, usually checking out the most expensive boutiques and clubbing around at night. She is a quality over quantity person, and hates being overcharged for cheap goods.

As a child, she was raised in a very matriarchal household, and even though she hasn't seen her family in centuries, she still believes that men are the weaker sex, and looks down on males. The fact that most leadership positions in human society are taken by men still boggles her mind. Still, it's not like she hates them, just that most of them don't know their place. On the other hand, she also encourages women to be stronger and more proud of themselves, especially for the more passive types of the group, and has made a few friends from that.

Despite her materialism and pride, Ayaka secretly has a soft spot for hard workers (mainly because they do the work for her and she kind of feels bad. Kind of. Like 1%.) She also tries to work hard at her job as a Keeper, putting her biases against males on hold so that she may work with her partner in catching rogues. Ayaka is more of the strategist of the group, stalking out the rogues in question and making detailed plans to catch them as efficiently as possible so she can get the job done and go back shopping or something. Unfortunately, her partner tends to not follow her plans, making catching rogues longer than it needs to be. Still, they get the job done eventually.

She's the most relaxed when she goes back home to Kyoto. Kurenai, the retired Keeper who owns the mansion where Ayaka lives, is the one person that Ayaka trusts the most, and often tones down her normal snobbery due to her respect for her. It's because of Kurenai that she wishes to grow up and become more self sufficient, starting with a more mature wardrobe. Still, although Ayaka admires her and feels close to Kurenai, she's also a bit suspicious as to why she hasn't gotten word about her family in 200 years. At the same time, in her own time as a Keeper, she hasn't found any information either...

Secretly, Ayaka would like to be closer to people, but she feels like she can't trust anyone completely without hurting herself. She's seen too many girls betrayed by their close ones. For all she know, her family left her for dead as well. But she makes sure that it doesn't bother her on the outside, not wanting to let her guard down.

Likes
Clubbing and Dancing
Expensive Fashion
Her mentor, Kurenai
Gossip
Dislikes
Men who don't know their place
Direct Fighting
Cheap knockoffs of goods
Swimming (because she refuses to learn)

History:

Ayaka was born in the mid 1700s in a mountain inn in Northern Japan, to the jorogumo owners of said inn. Jorogumo in her area were a matriarchal lineage, as women were the main food gatherers – their most favorite prey being young male humans. Jorogumo men were only used for breeding purposes or as servants, and were often thought of the weaker sex compared to the women. As Ayaka was the youngest child and only girl of her family's seven children, she was quite spoiled as a child by her family. She was given beautiful kimonos as a child and never asked to do much work around the inn. The only thing Ayaka didn't get to have was the taste of human flesh, as her mother would not let her eat it until she was older. She did get to smell it when her parents would take a prey to their hideout in a nearby waterfall cave, and she couldn't wait to grow up to have this adult food like the rest of her family.

As Ayaka grew into an adolescent and was able to go into her Fated Form, her mother began to put more responsibilities on her, especially her main duty of gathering food. She quickly learned how to choose the right prey (usually single men traveling alone), how to seduce them with hospitality, poison them quickly so the prey wouldn't scream, and wrap them in webs for her brothers and father to take to the cave. Though she considered it hard, annoying work when she could just eat fish or a crow nearby, she was determined to be considered an adult and have her first taste of flesh. Unfortunately, by the time it she was old enough, a drought had come over the area, and less people were traveling to the mountain where their inn was located. It got to the point where the rest of her family was starving for human flesh, no matter who it was. Ayaka found their answer when she saw some men going toward the pond close to their waterfall cave, and set up some webs around that area to trap men.

For days she waited. Her family was anxious to get food and to see their little Ayaka's first prey, but she was taking too long and had retreated to their inn. Ayaka stayed put. Finally, a human passed by – a woman, but a human nonetheless. Ayaka got one side of the web under the waterfall, ready to pull on the web when she approached the water. When the woman got close enough, she pulled – but the woman's weight was so heavy that instead, Ayaka fell into the water instead of the woman. She found that it was a tree stump, not the woman, that was in the water – and the woman, revealing herself as a Mythos known as a tennyo, was floating above her and looking her. Before she could get out of the pond or check on her family, the tennyo knocked her out.

When she woke up, she was in a small cell. The tennyo introduced herself as Kurenai, and proceeded to explain why she was locked up – Kurenai was a Keeper of the Chancel, a group that protected rogues from harming humans, and reports about a flesh eating group of Mythos were traced to Ayaka's family's inn. Ayaka, at first, didn't understand why Kurenai or these Chancel people were so protective of humans compared to any other food stock like fish. But when Ayaka mentioned that she had never eaten flesh herself, but her family had, Kurenai arranged to get Ayaka out sooner and when she did, let the jorogumo girl live at her mansion in a mountain in Kyoto. Kurenai was amazed at all the food and goods that she had never seen back home, but Kurenai was determined to rehabilitate the girl to understand why it was better to work with humans rather than kill them. The two made a deal – Ayaka would live in her Sealed Form for some time to understand humans, and Kurenai would try to find her family, who had disappeared soon after they heard Ayaka was captured according to Kurenai's partner.

So for about most of the 19th century, Ayaka slowly learned human culture when Kurenai had time to show her around Kyoto. Admittedly, she was less than impressed by it at first. Just livestock trudging around to survive, with men for reasons she had no idea being heads of the family. But when Kurenai showed her the geisha districts, she a structure more familiar to her – women the main attraction or leaders of the teahouses, and males as their customers or servants. She started to see that there were at least a few humans worth protecting, and became a frequent visitor of the area, if simply to watch the elegant geisha walk around or see events in the area, and learned some of the arts that geisha were supposed to learn as a way to entertain herself. She even befriended a few people in the area, though she could never be too close to any human. Of course, she sometimes was reminded of her mother and family, but she had no idea where they were, and she had no idea how to get back to home without Kurenai around. She just hoped they were safe somewhere – and maybe found a new food source, or else they probably were in Sanctum's jail somewhere.

However, her walks to the geisha districts were halted around World War II. Although Kyoto was spared by bombs by the Allied Forces, a different violence came around in the form of another jorogumo disguised as a prostitute eating the few people in the area. Sensing the other jorogumo, she alerted Kurenai but tried to trap the other jorogumo herself in her webs. Ayaka failed horribly, but Kurenai and her partner got to her and got her first. Kurenai suggested after Ayaka's failure to possibly be part of the Chancel as a Keeper so that she would be able to get rogues like that without her help. At first, she refused, thinking it was too much work – but she had been living as a freeloader to Kurenai for too long and she was getting bored in the mansion. So she eventually agreed to be a Keeper.

Admittedly her partnership hasn't been the easiest one. When she was at Sanctum, she was hoping to work with a girl - or least a cute looking guy. Instead she got some scruffy manticore who punches first and thinks later. She tends to use him to do things she doesn't want to do (like carry her shopping bags, venture into dirty places, etc), and when he doesn't follow her plans and just beats up whatever Rogue is close by she gives him the scolding of a lifetime and refuses to talk to him for about a day. However...he's also saved her from some deep trouble in the past and has a pretty good attitude toward life, so she respects him as a person and as her partner. Not like she'll show it ever.

In the present day, Ayaka still keeps up with the latest fashion. When she's not working, she goes home to Kyoto to stay with Kurenai, who is now retired and has two little boys with her former partner. Ayaka ends up babysitting them sometimes, only because Kurenai had taken care of her for years.

Trivia:

She only dresses in red, gold, black, and white, unless she's shapeshifting. She gets her money for her dresses from Kurenai.

Drinks only fruity drinks, and mainly eats things that have liquid in them (so rare steaks, fruits, etc.)

The only geisha art she's retained over the years is traditional dancing, but she refuses to show it to anyone. But she's still secretly proud of her skill.

Voice Claim: Kana Ueda (JPN) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdnUgP…

Description
for

Name: Ayaka Ito （糸綾佳）
Nicknames: Aya（あや）
Age: 27 (True Age: 250)
Gender: Female
Height: 5'4 (Sealed Form) 7'1 (Fated Form), 5” (True Form)

Species: Jorogumo

A spider yokai native to Japan. Usually disguised as young, beautiful women, they take this form to trick young men into coming into their domain, offering them food, hospitality, and entertainment before trapping the men into thick webs. Afterwards, the jorogumo would feed on their prey. The spider itself can be found anywhere in Japan except Hokkaido, but jorogumo are often associated with waterfalls. There are many stories where a woodcutter resting on near a waterfall found his foot entangled in spider threads, so to free himself he attached the threads to a tree, causing the tree to fall into the water in his place.

Abilities:

Shapeshifting – A basic ability of jorogumo. Although most of the time Ayaka will can just use her Sealed Form, she can use this ability to look like any human or mythos. It's most effective in sneaking up on unsuspecting rogues. Of course, just because she looks like someone doesn't mean she'll act like them, and will be caught if she doesn't know who's she's imitating well.

Web Weaving – Ayaka can use her webs to construct traps that are mostly invisible to the enemy that are difficult to get out of. They can be seen from certain angles.

Flaming Spiders – A newer ability of hers, Ayaka can make little flaming spiders from to cause some fire damage. Since fire tends to attract human eyes, she mainly uses it as a diversion so that people will get away from dangerous rogues.

Weaknesses:

Although she's forgiven Kurenai for almost drowning her once, Ayaka absolutely refuses to learn how to swim and hates approaching water.

She's not a combative type, and leaves that her partner. Melee combat is not her thing at all.

Title: Whisper
Class: C
Partner: Darius Arbab
Occupation: Keeper / Occasional Babysitter
Residence/Region: Eastern

Personality:

Proud | Intelligent | Efficient | Dauntless || Lazy | Conceited | Prejudiced | Temperamental

Although from far away Ayaka looks like a very mature, classy woman – she's really not. She just prefers to wear fashion that makes her look like one. She's actually more of a spoiled brat, and often orders other people (mainly her partner) to do the dirty work while she has fun elsewhere. If she has to do more work than necessary, she will get irritated (but she'll still do it). She loves hanging out with her friends humans or mythos, usually checking out the most expensive boutiques and clubbing around at night. She is a quality over quantity person, and hates being overcharged for cheap goods.

As a child, she was raised in a very matriarchal household, and even though she hasn't seen her family in centuries, she still believes that men are the weaker sex, and looks down on males. The fact that most leadership positions in human society are taken by men still boggles her mind. Still, it's not like she hates them, just that most of them don't know their place. On the other hand, she also encourages women to be stronger and more proud of themselves, especially for the more passive types of the group, and has made a few friends from that.

Despite her materialism and pride, Ayaka secretly has a soft spot for hard workers (mainly because they do the work for her and she kind of feels bad. Kind of. Like 1%.) She also tries to work hard at her job as a Keeper, putting her biases against males on hold so that she may work with her partner in catching rogues. Ayaka is more of the strategist of the group, stalking out the rogues in question and making detailed plans to catch them as efficiently as possible so she can get the job done and go back shopping or something. Unfortunately, her partner tends to not follow her plans, making catching rogues longer than it needs to be. Still, they get the job done eventually.

She's the most relaxed when she goes back home to Kyoto. Kurenai, the retired Keeper who owns the mansion where Ayaka lives, is the one person that Ayaka trusts the most, and often tones down her normal snobbery due to her respect for her. It's because of Kurenai that she wishes to grow up and become more self sufficient, starting with a more mature wardrobe. Still, although Ayaka admires her and feels close to Kurenai, she's also a bit suspicious as to why she hasn't gotten word about her family in 200 years. At the same time, in her own time as a Keeper, she hasn't found any information either...

Secretly, Ayaka would like to be closer to people, but she feels like she can't trust anyone completely without hurting herself. She's seen too many girls betrayed by their close ones. For all she know, her family left her for dead as well. But she makes sure that it doesn't bother her on the outside, not wanting to let her guard down.

Likes
Clubbing and Dancing
Expensive Fashion
Her mentor, Kurenai
Gossip
Dislikes
Men who don't know their place
Direct Fighting
Cheap knockoffs of goods
Swimming (because she refuses to learn)

History:

Ayaka was born in the mid 1700s in a mountain inn in Northern Japan, to the jorogumo owners of said inn. Jorogumo in her area were a matriarchal lineage, as women were the main food gatherers – their most favorite prey being young male humans. Jorogumo men were only used for breeding purposes or as servants, and were often thought of the weaker sex compared to the women. As Ayaka was the youngest child and only girl of her family's seven children, she was quite spoiled as a child by her family. She was given beautiful kimonos as a child and never asked to do much work around the inn. The only thing Ayaka didn't get to have was the taste of human flesh, as her mother would not let her eat it until she was older. She did get to smell it when her parents would take a prey to their hideout in a nearby waterfall cave, and she couldn't wait to grow up to have this adult food like the rest of her family.

As Ayaka grew into an adolescent and was able to go into her Fated Form, her mother began to put more responsibilities on her, especially her main duty of gathering food. She quickly learned how to choose the right prey (usually single men traveling alone), how to seduce them with hospitality, poison them quickly so the prey wouldn't scream, and wrap them in webs for her brothers and father to take to the cave. Though she considered it hard, annoying work when she could just eat fish or a crow nearby, she was determined to be considered an adult and have her first taste of flesh. Unfortunately, by the time it she was old enough, a drought had come over the area, and less people were traveling to the mountain where their inn was located. It got to the point where the rest of her family was starving for human flesh, no matter who it was. Ayaka found their answer when she saw some men going toward the pond close to their waterfall cave, and set up some webs around that area to trap men.

For days she waited. Her family was anxious to get food and to see their little Ayaka's first prey, but she was taking too long and had retreated to their inn. Ayaka stayed put. Finally, a human passed by – a woman, but a human nonetheless. Ayaka got one side of the web under the waterfall, ready to pull on the web when she approached the water. When the woman got close enough, she pulled – but the woman's weight was so heavy that instead, Ayaka fell into the water instead of the woman. She found that it was a tree stump, not the woman, that was in the water – and the woman, revealing herself as a Mythos known as a tennyo, was floating above her and looking her. Before she could get out of the pond or check on her family, the tennyo knocked her out.

When she woke up, she was in a small cell. The tennyo introduced herself as Kurenai, and proceeded to explain why she was locked up – Kurenai was a Keeper of the Chancel, a group that protected rogues from harming humans, and reports about a flesh eating group of Mythos were traced to Ayaka's family's inn. Ayaka, at first, didn't understand why Kurenai or these Chancel people were so protective of humans compared to any other food stock like fish. But when Ayaka mentioned that she had never eaten flesh herself, but her family had, Kurenai arranged to get Ayaka out sooner and when she did, let the jorogumo girl live at her mansion in a mountain in Kyoto. Kurenai was amazed at all the food and goods that she had never seen back home, but Kurenai was determined to rehabilitate the girl to understand why it was better to work with humans rather than kill them. The two made a deal – Ayaka would live in her Sealed Form for some time to understand humans, and Kurenai would try to find her family, who had disappeared soon after they heard Ayaka was captured according to Kurenai's partner.

So for about most of the 19th century, Ayaka slowly learned human culture when Kurenai had time to show her around Kyoto. Admittedly, she was less than impressed by it at first. Just livestock trudging around to survive, with men for reasons she had no idea being heads of the family. But when Kurenai showed her the geisha districts, she a structure more familiar to her – women the main attraction or leaders of the teahouses, and males as their customers or servants. She started to see that there were at least a few humans worth protecting, and became a frequent visitor of the area, if simply to watch the elegant geisha walk around or see events in the area, and learned some of the arts that geisha were supposed to learn as a way to entertain herself. She even befriended a few people in the area, though she could never be too close to any human. Of course, she sometimes was reminded of her mother and family, but she had no idea where they were, and she had no idea how to get back to home without Kurenai around. She just hoped they were safe somewhere – and maybe found a new food source, or else they probably were in Sanctum's jail somewhere.

However, her walks to the geisha districts were halted around World War II. Although Kyoto was spared by bombs by the Allied Forces, a different violence came around in the form of another jorogumo disguised as a prostitute eating the few people in the area. Sensing the other jorogumo, she alerted Kurenai but tried to trap the other jorogumo herself in her webs. Ayaka failed horribly, but Kurenai and her partner got to her and got her first. Kurenai suggested after Ayaka's failure to possibly be part of the Chancel as a Keeper so that she would be able to get rogues like that without her help. At first, she refused, thinking it was too much work – but she had been living as a freeloader to Kurenai for too long and she was getting bored in the mansion. So she eventually agreed to be a Keeper.

Admittedly her partnership hasn't been the easiest one. When she was at Sanctum, she was hoping to work with a girl - or least a cute looking guy. Instead she got some scruffy manticore who punches first and thinks later. She tends to use him to do things she doesn't want to do (like carry her shopping bags, venture into dirty places, etc), and when he doesn't follow her plans and just beats up whatever Rogue is close by she gives him the scolding of a lifetime and refuses to talk to him for about a day. However...he's also saved her from some deep trouble in the past and has a pretty good attitude toward life, so she respects him as a person and as her partner. Not like she'll show it ever.

In the present day, Ayaka still keeps up with the latest fashion. When she's not working, she goes home to Kyoto to stay with Kurenai, who is now retired and has two little boys with her former partner. Ayaka ends up babysitting them sometimes, only because Kurenai had taken care of her for years.

Trivia:

She only dresses in red, gold, black, and white, unless she's shapeshifting. She gets her money for her dresses from Kurenai.

Drinks only fruity drinks, and mainly eats things that have liquid in them (so rare steaks, fruits, etc.)

The only geisha art she's retained over the years is traditional dancing, but she refuses to show it to anyone. But she's still secretly proud of her skill.

Voice Claim: Kana Ueda (JPN) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdnUgP…