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Description
Name: Tsikiri
Alias: Kiri (by friends and family) Jaguar Woman (by Alaric, temporarily) Daughter of Fire (by the gods)
Race: Ikikunari (this universe's equivalent of Purepechas and Nahuas)
Species: Demigoddess
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Birthdate: 1 Mazatl (Nahua calendar) May 13 (normal calendar)
Birthplace: Ikikunari lands, town of Aguacuangeo
Height: 5'8
Skin tone: Reddish Tan
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Personality: Tsikiri oftens shows herself to be a brave warrior and willing to sacrifice herself for her people and friends. She is very smart and is a great strategist as well as a leader. However she carries heavy grief from the loss of her beloved Apatschin. She constantly thinks of him and partly desires to die so she can be with him. However, this is overpowered by her love for her closest friends and cousin, Citiali, Amazatl, and Tsijiari. Tsikiri has some faith in her people's gods and in the teotl but is not religious. She has a low self esteem, thinking of herself as undesirable due to her height and appearance.
Dress: Kiri wears both what we would consider Nahua Mexica and Purepecha fashions in various colors. Her armor in battle is silver and has jaguar ears along with a white mane on the back for decorative purpose. She will wear a right sided quezaquemitl (a scarf like shawl) with the armor. She tends to wear jewelry and use body paint. While she has a lip piercing (reserved for warriors only) she won't wear it often. She sticks the "Purepecha" body paint and does not like wearing yellow face paint or dying her hair.
Special items:
- She has mother of pearl earrings that came from Apatschin's homelands. It was his last gift to her prior to the battle. She wears all the time or at least has them in a secure place.
Weapons: Tsikiri is good with a macuahuitl, the atatl, and bow/arrows. She is skilled at archery and swordsmanship (a skill taught to them by friendly Tosnaxians (the equivalent of the Celts).
Proficiencies:
- War strategy
- Archery
- Swordsmanship
- Hand to hand combat
Magic/Special Abilities:
- Kiri is fire proof due to her father being Kurikaweri, the god of fire and the sun in Purepecha culture
- She has superhuman strength, stamina, and healing
- She knows minor magic spells
Backstory:
Childhood: Kiri was born to a weaver and a merchant. She is not actually her parents' child but their niece. Kiri's birth mother was in love with Kurikaweri but was killed in the first wave of this world's equivalent of smallpox after Kiri's birth. Kiri's aunt and uncle partly resented having to care for her as they did not want children. Kiri's uncle later adopted her cousin, Tsijiari and raised him with them. The kids grew up together and were very close. Kiri's aunt got pregnant with her own child but lost the baby and her fertility to the second wave. After that Kiri's uncle started to travel more and more to avoid all three of them. Shanarani, Kiri's mother, would eventually send the children off to the schools the nobles were allowed into.
Adolescence: At this time, Kiri and Tsijiari were sent off to a warrior school. Both of them did extremely well and excelled. They met Amazatl who was a year older than them and Citiali, who was a year younger. Amazatl became a high ranking soldier while Kiri and Tsijiari were mid rank. Citiali who decided to avoid marriage and children by becoming an ahuicame joined them, having an on and off relationship with Amazatl. Kiri met Apatschin, who was the son of a Ikikunari woman and a warrior that was brought by the Tosnaxians from the native people of northeast equivalent of the States. They hit off and eventually had plans of getting married and having a family. They bonded in the battlefield and eventually Apatschin got the approval of Shanarani and Ixcoyotl, Kiri's adoptive father.
Adulthood: When Kiri was around nineteen, a war broke out between the Nahuweris, Irechewka, and Ikikunari and the Etheian Empire, who was angry at their refusal to trade with them. They retailated by burning down a village near the capital. All three nations banded together to stop them. Kiri and her friends were in battle when they were hit with a new weapon- the cannon. Apatschin was too close to one and was killed. Kiri had a brief mental breakdown after his death and vowed to end the war and find those responsible for his death. Eventually, Kiri and her friends were transferred to the town of Angancueo where the story began.
