Mahou Shoujo:Roanapur: Yumi

Yumi is a character in Mahou Shoujo:Roanapur, played by rbingham2000

Yumi Suenami (末浪由実) / Demon Hunter Yumi

"O soul of mine, under shadow's sway...
Let every demon become my prey...
Let vengeance tear my chains asunder...
Let the hunted...become the hunter!
Dark Transfiguration...COMMENCE!"

Yumi, out of costume

Yumi, in costume

Defining Moment: Yumi Suenami's first two days in Roanapur were complete and utter hell. On the first night, she lost her older sister Yuri to a powerful demon that tortured her and devoured her alive despite Yumi's best efforts to save her, and then hunted her throughout the night with the intent of doing the exact same thing to her. On the second day, she was ridiculed and laughed at by many of the sisters from the sorority that her sister had been a part of when she tried to tell them what had happened to Yuri, culminating in Yumi finally snapping and killing the head of the sorority, Hitomi Nishimura, in a fit of utter rage. Yumi was thrown in jail for killing Nishimura and viciously beaten to within an inch of her life by a band of dirty cops, soon before another demon attacked the police station and started killing and devouring everyone. Yumi, scared for her life, in excruciating pain and at the end of her rope, accepted Kanzoutsukamu's offer of power and awakened as a mahou shoujo, killing the demon with the tsukaima's help. The old Yumi died that night, and from the ashes, a new Yumi was born. Granted with powers that enable her to take on the demons on their level, Yumi has made it her sworn mission to kill every last demon she can get her bolts or her blade into, with the primary goal of finding and killing the demon that devoured her sister, as well as the summoners that loosed it upon the city.

Badass Type: Kickass (+2 bonus to all Physical rolls)

Flavas:

• You Are Awesome, And You Should Feel Awesome - Though her main talent is kicking ass, Yumi can bust out a fiery speech with the best of them. By spending 1 BP during a pre-battle scene, she can give every Badass present and allied with her 1 extra BP.
• That All You Got? - Though she prefers to keep at range, Yumi can take a hit like nobody's business. She can spend 3 BP to negate all damage taken in a single instance.
• Dark Angel Nemesis - In times of great need, Yumi can burn 2 BP to unleash her Trigger Form, a second form that supercharges her offensive ability, but places her body in a great deal of strain. When in Dark Angel Nemesis mode, Yumi gains a +2 bonus to her attack rolls (giving her essentially a +6 total bonus!), but at the cost of losing 1 BP for every round the form is active until she either chooses to end it or loses all her BP. She can only unleash her Trigger once per general fight. When in Dark Angel Nemesis form, Yumi's hair goes crimson red, her skin turns as white as snow, her eyes turn a bright gold, her shadowy leather armor turns into a set of shiny black metallic armor similar to the Ebony Armor from Skyrim, and she gains a pair of blackened wings that she can use to fly, attack and defend.
• Martial Artist - While her skills in gunplay and archery are top-notch, Yumi's history as a vicious brawler is not to be taken lightly. Her kicks are capable of shattering legs and caving ribcages in, her punches are capable of breaking jaws and crushing windpipes, and if she gets her hands on you, she's capable of ugly damage. And that's just what she can do without a weapon. Yumi can spend 1 BP to make a melee attack do 1 BP worth of damage for every 2 points over the defender rather than every 4.
• Gun Fu - Yumi is a student of the deadly Gunner Saint, and Sylvia made sure she learned how to shoot and shoot well. When she has a gun or other ranged weapon in her hands, Yumi gains a +1 bonus to all attacks with that weapon, and when fighting mooks, she can make a single ranged weapon attack do 1 BP of damage for every 2 ponts over the defender instead of every 4.

Gear:

Mahou Shoujo Form:

• Dextera Ultionis, the Right Hand of Vengeance (+2 Weapon) - Yumi's primary weapon, which can be conjured at will any time she is in mahou shoujo form. It can take on three major forms depending on Yumi's needs:
  • Striker Form - This is Dextera's default form, a magical crossbow that is black with gold and red accents. It can be fired as fast as a semiautomatic weapon, is typically used at short to medium range, and never runs out of ammo because the glowing purple bolts it fires are conjured magically. When BP is spent for attack, Yumi unleashes both charged attacks and shaped attacks that devastate her opposition. When Dextera is in Striker Form, Yumi also has the ability to conjure a shadow-copy of the weapon in her other hand for dual-wielding purposes. Yumi typically uses this form against non-magical or possessed foes, as well as a warmup against demons and mahou and maou shoujo.
  • Arbalest Form - A larger version of Striker Form, used to deliver powerful long-range attacks, but with less speed than Striker Form due to the size of the weapon in this mode. It is also the form Yumi prefers when using her powerful Incantation attacks, including Shadowfire Inferno, Darklight Fusillade, and the joint attack Luminous Shadow Breaker with Shizuka.
  • Reaper Form - This form converts Dextera Ultionis from its usual crossbow modes into a wicked-looking crimson-bladed scythe that is primarily used to slash people and demons alike to ribbons. When in this form, Dextera is capable of unleashing devastating melee and short-ranged attacks, including the infamous True Devil's Reaper, which was used to destroy Yumi's first Awakened Demon, Shub-Niggurath.
• Shadow Armor (+1 Armor) - This is a set of shadowy armor that Yumi primarily uses when in mahou shoujo form. Like Dextera, Yumi's armor has several major forms it can take depending on her needs:
  • Hunter Form - This is the default state of Yumi's shadow armor. When in this form, the armor takes the form of a shadowy leather armored jumpsuit with leather riding boots and half-gauntlets. A black leather half-skirt reaches down to just above her knees, held in place with a black leather belt with a grim wolf's head buckle. A black leather hood is usually also part of the ensemble, but sometimes Yumi lets her hair fly free. A crimson scarf is tied around her neck, coming down to just above the beltline.
  • Avenger Form - Yumi only uses this form of the armor in those rare moments when she is preparing to do battle with demons and other enemies that she has a personal reason to want dead. When in this form, the armor takes on a menacing sheen halfway between leather and full-on metal, and her skin becomes noticeably paler than it is outside of full or even partial Trigger, her eyes taking on a fiery golden hue. Her hair remains its regular raven black, but it seems deeper, duller, more shadowy than normal. In the place of the scarf that usually adorns her neck, a hooded crimson cloak hangs on her shoulders, coming down to just below her knees, held in place by two grim silver clasps on her armor shaped like the heads of wolves, topped by a pair of black steel pauldrons.

Normal Form:

• Sig-Sauer P-228 - Yumi's primary sidearm in normal form, which has a 13-round mag. Yumi usually uses hollow-point bullets for their stopping power against unarmored targets.
• Leather Jacket - One of Yumi's first purchases in Roanapur, its tough hide makes for decent protection in a knife-fight, but doesn't do much against bullets.
• Double Edged Dagger - Yumi's other weapon for those times when she's feeling less than merciful. Both edges have been honed to razor sharpness. She usually keeps the weapon up her left sleeve for fast deployment.

Backstory

Yumi's parents died in a car crash when she was ten and her sister Yuri was twelve. The two spent the next six years of their lives in foster care, the first two years at an orphanage and then with a drunken asshole of a foster father, the latter time a period that Yumi would later call Jigoku no Yotose -- the "Four Years of Hell". While Yuri was quite responsible for her age due to having to take care of Yumi, Yumi was the troublemaker, who, while she was a superb athlete, would always be getting into trouble with the school for frequent fights with others. When Yuri graduated from high school, she moved out and took Yumi with her to live on their own until Yumi finished high school, with Yuri taking a part-time job at the local grocery to provide for the both of them. Yuri went to Kanokon University to study medicine, and joined the Kanokon chapter of Delta Kappa Phi during her first year. It was during Spring Break of 1990 that the head of the sorority, Hitomi Nishimura, got the idea that the sorority would go to Roanapur, a city on an island off the coast of Thailand, well known for being one of the wickedest cities on earth, thinking that it would be a good place to get drunk, get laid and party down, to "take a walk on the wild side." If Hitomi had thought just a little bit more, she would have realized that the city was not a very good tourist attraction.

When Yumi found out that her sister was going to Roanapur, she was flat-out against the idea of Yuri going. Rumors in Japan had named Roanapur as a haven for all kinds of criminal activity -- Mafia, Organizatsiya, Triads, South American drug cartels; you name it, it's there in some form or another -- and Yumi did not want Yuri to get hurt or worse out there. Unfortunately, Yuri had a sense of responsibility for everyone in the sorority, and did not want Hitomi to do something stupid that would get everyone in the sorority in trouble or even worse. When it became apparent that Yuri was going like it or not, Yumi insisted on going with her -- Yumi never liked the idea of Yuri-nee leaving her behind, especially if it meant having to go back to living with their foster father.

Yumi's first night in Roanapur was one of tragedy and terror. It went smoothly enough, with Yumi tagging along with the other girls as they toured the various bars in Roanapur and drank to their heart's content. But Yumi and Yuri soon got sick of the other girls' partying as night fell and headed off to seek entertainment elsewhere. Neither of them saw the demon in the alleyway until it was too late. Yuri was pulled right into the alleyway by one of the thing's many tentacles, and when Yumi rushed in to save her, she was not prepared for what she saw. The demon tortured Yuri by means of channeling energy through its tentacles and into her body and by spraying her with thousands of tiny needles with pain-enhancing poison. Every time Yumi tried to help her, she was either smacked into a wall or into the ground by a tentacle or blasted down by a beam from one of the Thing's thousand glowing eyes. Yumi finally got her chance to try to hurt it when she rooted through a nearby dumpster and found a gun belonging to a dead man inside, but as she soon found out, the gun didn't do a thing against the demon -- and neither did anything else she either swung or threw at it. Yumi could do nothing but watch as her beloved sister was dragged into the thing's circular maw by its tentacles and eaten alive. As Yuri was being eaten, she begged Yumi to run and not look back. Yumi spent the rest of the night trying to evade the demon, running and hiding in order not to get eaten herself, while at the same time dodging the various scum that populated Roanapur's streets at night. She does not know what made it decide to stop hunting her -- whether it gave up, caught something else of interest or was interrupted -- but when she was finally safe for the moment, she booked a room with a local hotel that spoke English with what was left of her money, locked the door and broke down.

The next day, Yumi tracked down the other members of Delta Kappa Phi. While several of the sorority's sisters, including Maki Shino, Yuri's friend in the sorority, were rather concerned about where she disappeared to, the majority of them, including Hitomi Nishimura, didn't seem to give much of a damn about her. None of them believed Yumi when she gave her story about a monster eating her sister, and quite a few of them ridiculed and laughed at her. The worst of it came from Hitomi herself, who had not only not given a damn about Yuri, but had told Yumi point blank that she was glad that Yuri was gone, that if she did get eaten it was less than she deserved for dragging the sorority down, and that her sister had never deserved to be in Delta Kappa Phi -- or even at Kanokon University -- to begin with. For Yumi, who was coming off of a very scary first night in a very dangerous city and having just lost her sister who was her primary source of support for six long years, this was the final straw. Yumi snapped and viciously attacked Hitomi, fighting off the other sorority members when they tried to stop her and then pursuing her through Roanapur's streets before cornering her and pounding her head into the pavement in a savage rage. By the time anyone was able to pull her off, Hitomi was quite thoroughly dead. It didn't take long for the police to catch up with Yumi following Hitomi's death, and she ended up in the local lockup. The cops, worse than any cops Yumi had ever dealt with back home, were not merciful with her, beating the living shit out of her in the interrogation room before throwing her into a holding cell.

Another demon attacked the police station that very night and started killing and devouring the cops within. Yumi was in excruciating pain from the beating she had received, worse than any she had ever gotten, and though she hated the cops that had done this to her, the way they were dying filled Yumi with stark terror for her own life. It reminded her far too much of the moment when she lost her sister, and she very much did not want to die like she believed Yuri had. Kanzoutsukamu appeared to Yumi in her cell, and after a brief question-and-answer session concerning just what the hell was happening, she accepted the tsukaima's offer of power. Escaping from her cell, Yumi tracked the demon down, fought and killed it with Kanzoutsukamu's help. As Yumi sent the monster screaming into the void, something awakened in her. Knowing that she now had the power to fight demons on their level was a rebirth for Yumi in a very real sense, and knowing that there were more demons out there preying upon people made Yumi determined to pay them back in kind.

It has been four years since Yumi first arrived in Roanapur. She has made a name for herself as a courier, a small-time cigarette dealer, an occasional legbreaker, and one of the people to see when you've got a demon problem. Yumi's hatred for demons and the ones who summon them have made her a very deadly force in the mahou shoujo world. For Yumi has never forgotten the two vows that she made when she left the police station with Kanzoutsukamu.

The first was never again to become a demon's prey, but to make any demon she came across her prey. The second was to find and kill the demon that was responsible for what happened to her sister, and the ones who loosed it upon this city.

Powers

Yumi has been at the mahou shoujo game for a while, and has a fairly decent grasp at how to use magic. She has developed a number of powers that have become a part of her:

• Shadow Power - Yumi's primary domain is shadow. She can solidify shadow and create shadow constructs, both inanimate and animate. She can meld into shadow or become a shadow herself. She can animate the shadows of others or herself to attack. And she can draw upon the shadows of her surroundings to add to her power. She can also heal people with her shadow power, but this is always painful for the person involved, and so Yumi never uses this side of her magic unless she has no other option.
• Witchsight - One of Yumi's iconic powers, this allows Yumi to see into the 108 dimensions that demons exist in, as well as details about magical circles and sigils. By spending a BP, Yumi can also move through those dimensions like a demon can, either to attack or to avoid attack. Yumi has also recently learned how to use a subset of Witchsight called Soulsight to see into a person or demon's existence entirely.
• Transmutation - Yumi can use something infused with her power, such as her blood, to act as a focus to transmute, or if necessary, to destroy things. Because of Yumi's focus on hatred and vengeance, she finds destroying things easier than transmutation unless she is trying to create a weapon out of something. These weapons are always one-use temporary constructs, as Yumi does not have the general know-how to create more permanent constructs this way. She primarily uses the destructive aspect of this sorcery to destroy inanimate objects, but does not use it against people and other creatures unless she is in a very cruel and vengeful mood, as being destroyed this way is horrifically painful for the victim.
• Tracking - Yumi can use her power to track down a demon or other being, wherever it is. In order to use it, she needs something belonging to the being in question, or she needs to place a supernatural mark on them. By using divination, she can pinpoint where in the world something is, provided no active supernatural deception is being carried out.
• Awakened Bond - Yumi is connected to her sister Yuri Suenami, a bond forged through four years of hell, a bond recently restored through their reunion at the Rip-Off Church. Through the part of her existence that she shares with her, Yumi can sense if her sister is in supernatural danger, but she needs her trademark scarf or some other thing that used to belong to her in order to find out where she generally is.

Family

• Toshiro Suenami (father, deceased)
• Kaori Suenami (mother, deceased)
• Yuri Suenami (older sister, living)

• Masato Komura (foster father, living)
• Midori Komura (foster mother, unknown)

Relationships

NPC

• Sylvia Fan Pei Hsi, the Gunner Saint: Sylvia is a magical girl who took Yumi under her wing soon after her contract with Kanzoutsukamu and taught her much of what she knows about demons and magic. She's known as the Gunner Saint because of the religious motif of her outfit and her formidable skills with the dual magical revolvers that she favors for fighting demons and rival magical girls. Sylvia most often works with Mr. Chang as a supernatural troubleshooter, with most of Yumi's early jobs having her assisting Sylvia in taking down demons, cultists and the occasional summoner who tried to make trouble for him. She has also lent aid to the Church of Violence on a number of occasions, usually involving taking out rival arms dealers, cultists, and those involved in the underground trade of tomes used to summon demons. She has a very standoffish relationship with Anton Lamonte, who she knows was once a summoner, and doesn't trust the man one bit. Sylvia is one of the only mahou shoujo who has fought Yumi's enemy, the Creeping Chaos with a Thousand Faces, and lived to tell the tale. She lost her entire team to the Awakened Demon on that horrible night -- Steel Witch Haruka, Fate Guardian Masami, Fire Invoker Ruby Heart, and her sempai, Crystal Warrior Marian, whose death bore a very troubling parallel to what happened to Yumi's sister, Yuri Suenami. Sylvia has never been the same since that night, and Yumi has sworn to avenge the deaths of Sylvia's fallen sisters-in-arms as well as her own sister's torture and the loss of her existence to the Awakened Demon.
• Anton Lamonte: Once upon a time, Anton was a freelance demonologist who hired out to syndicates in need of supernatural firepower for jobs. But when he hired out his services for a demon cult that Yumi was hired to take down, the cult's leader recognized Anton as a former member of a powerful secret society in the occult underground, one which Anton had left after a falling out over their vile practice of torturing people to turn them into vectors for demonic possession. The leader, seeking to curry favor with the society in question, used his sorcery to turn the demon Anton summoned against him, had him beaten to within an inch of his life, and then, as a final humiliation, sought to have Anton sacrificed to the very demon he summoned. Despite Yumi's hatred for summoners (which is equal to her hatred of demons), she saved Anton's life and killed the leader and the demon that Anton helped to summon. He has since become something of a loremaster of things occult and demonic, with his extensive library containing many tomes of forgotten lore about demons, among them a certain volume by a certain mad Arab. Because many of the tomes of Anton's library are quite valuable to summoners, Anton takes their theft VERY seriously, and Yumi will often get hired to retrieve the tomes in question before they are used to unleash big bad nastiness upon the city. From time to time, Anton also feeds Yumi info on various goings-on in the occult underground, including info on demon cults and what they're up to, as well as summoners that Yumi has taken contracts on. Anton knows that he is only alive today because of Yumi, and Yumi has made it very clear what she will do to him if she finds out that he was involved in another demonic summoning, and it's not going to be pretty.
• Yuri Suenami: For four long years, Yumi thought that her older sister was dead. One does not normally survive being eaten alive by a demon, much less an Awakened Demon, and especially not over four years. But through an accident of demonic awakening and a sheer refusal to die, Yuri has returned to Roanapur, where she was rescued from scumbags by BlackRoseWhisper and Longshot, and then reunited with Yumi. But while Yumi's older sister is alive, she is not whole. Much of her existence has been consumed by the Creeping Chaos with a Thousand Faces, and most of her memories are gone, but she has fought hard to hold on to the memories she has of her little sister. Because of the nature of her ordeal at the hands of the Creeping Chaos, Yuri appears to be the same age as she was on that horrible night while in her normal form, and she bears the distinctive scars of her torture at the Awakened Demon's hands on her back. Because of their history together, and especially now that her sister has returned to her, Yumi is savagely protective of Yuri and wants to make damned sure she doesn't suffer anything like what happened to her in the past ever again.
• Anastasie Dupont: Manageress of La Colonial, a small restaurant that serves a mix of French and Thai cuisine. She runs the place with a firm but fair hand and doesn't suffer fools gladly. This means that she can be somewhat harsh with those who mess up, especially if she considers it a silly mistake to make. That being said she also looks out for her employees and offers good wages, advice and even a cheap place to sleep. Yuri Suenami has made the restaurant her new home following her reunion with Yumi, and Yumi has made the place a more frequent stop in order to check on her every now and then. However, Anastasie is also a bit of a mahou shoujo fangirl (her office is covered in posters and pictures) and wants nothing more than to get pictures with them -- and even better, to find out their secret identities. This aspect of Anastasie annoys Yumi to no end.

PC

• Megan: (Friendly) Yumi respects Megan for her skills with the dual 1911s, similar in many ways to those of Sylvia herself. The two of them have fought together on several occasions, and often talk shop when they are at the Church of Violence, Yumi to see Sylvia and Megan to see Sister Magdalena. Yumi owes Megan a great deal for being one of the two mahou shoujo who brought her sister back to her.
• Riri: (Friendly) Riri saved Yumi's life when she was caught in an ambush by three mahou shoujo working for one of Chang's rivals in Hong Kong, and the two have worked together on several occasions since fighting demons and those they possess. She's by far the youngest of Yumi's associates, and is quite self-reliant for her age, but Yumi still feels a sense of responsibility for her and seeks to help keep her out of trouble when she's around.
• Noriko: (Professional) Yumi met Noriko during the battle with Zhao Jun, Huy Tran and their men. The two of them have a common friend in Riri, though Yumi mainly knows Noriko as the girl who set some fires around Roanapur and led the police on a merry chase, as well as the one who stole Yumi's kill of Zhao Jun. She's not one to hold that against her though -- a dead demon's a dead demon.
• Xiahe: (Professional, reciprocated) Yumi and Xiahe are business partners when it comes to demonslaying. Yumi doesn't exactly trust her due to her background in the intelligence community, though she has given her good intel on demons in the past. Yumi prefers to meet face to face with Xiahe when they have to communicate with each other due to Xiahe being deaf, and Yumi has learned enough sign language to make herself understood when lip-reading isn't enough.
• Shizuka: (Friendly, reciprocated) Despite their differences in class, Yumi helped Shizuka get accustomed to life in Roanapur, much like Sylvia did for her when she was first starting out following what happened to Yuri. Though her primary prey are demons and those that summon them, she's agreed to help Shizuka track down the assassin that got away -- she knows all too well what it feels like to lose someone you love.

Character Songs

Transformation Themes

• Hunter Form: Shoujo Shinka (Emiya Illya Theme) - Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya OST
• Avenger Form: Reaper of Souls (second half) - Diablo III Reaper of Souls OST
• Dark Angel Nemesis: Tears of Blood - Immediate Music

Battle Themes

• Within Temptation - In the Middle of the Night
• Within Temptation - Stand My Ground
• Xandria - Valentine
• Xandria - Nightfall
• Jigoku Rock - Hell Girl OST
• Heart of Fury - Immediate Music

Character Themes

• Egoist - Namae no Nai Kaibutsu (Monster Without a Name)

Kuroi tetsu goushi no naka de Watashi wa umarete kitanda Akui no daishou wo negae Nozomu ga mama ni omae ni Saa ataeyou seigi wo Kowashite kowasareru mae ni Inga no daishou wo harai Tomo ni yukou namae no nai kaibutsu

Behind the black cell bars I was born Go wish for the price for your malice Well, I’ll give you that justice as much as you desire it Destroy it before you get destroyed by it I’ll pay the price for my karma and go together with you, monster without a name

• Within Temptation - Shot in the Dark
• Kelly Sweet - In the Air Tonight (Phil Collins cover)
• In This Moment - Burn