Mahou Shoujo:Roanapur: Yumi
Yumi is a character in Mahou Shoujo:Roanapur, played by rbingham2000
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Yumi Suenami (Demon Hunter Yumi)
"I command thee under the contract:
Let shadow encloak me and light be my eyes;
Let wrath be my weapon and vengeance my cry.
Dark Transfiguration...commence!"
Defining Moment: Yumi was visited by Kanzoutsukamu soon after her older sister, Yuri, was eaten alive by a demon on their first day on vacation in Roanapur while poor Yumi was forced to watch. She doesn't know who summoned the thing or why, and the cops, being the corrupt, bribe-taking lot they are, aren't giving her any answers. Granted with powers that enable her to take on the demons on their level, she has hired out as a demon hunter to the syndicates of Roanapur. Her ultimate goal is to take vengeance upon the demon that killed her sister and the summoners that loosed it upon the city.
Badass Type: Kickass (+2 bonus to all Physical rolls)
Flavas:
- Packrat -- When not transformed, Yumi is never without a weapon of some sort, whether it be a knife or a pistol, and she uses this ability to pull these. When in Mahou Shoujo form, it's used to pull her secondary weapon (a pair of wicked-sharp fighting knives), bust out a deadly barrage of conjured throwing knives, or employ a vicious arsenal of traps and other nastiness.
- That All You Got? -- Though she prefers to keep at range, Yumi can take a hit like nobody's business.
Gear:
- Magical Crossbow (+2 Weapon) - This weapon is black with gold and red accents, and can be conjured at will any time she is in mahou shoujo form. It can fire as fast as a semiautomatic weapon, and never runs out of ammo because the glowing purple bolts it fires are conjured magically. When she spends BP for Attack, Yumi can upgrade the crossbow to a bigger and badder Giant Form for more powerful attacks.
- Shadow Armor and Blood Red Scarf (+1 Armor) - When not in costume, this usually takes the form of a leather jacket and black jeans with combat boots, with a red scarf tied around her neck. When in costume, this becomes a set of form-fitting shadowy armor that reflects no light, with the scarf turning blood-red and lengthening to just below her beltline.
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. 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 Yumi and Yuri graduated, Yuri went to university to study medicine, while Yumi majored in history and literature. Yuri joined a sorority during her first year, and it was during Spring Break 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. But when it became apparent that Yuri was going like it or not, Yumi insisted on going with her -- she knew the city was dangerous as hell, and if Yuri had to go, she was sure as hell not leaving Yumi behind.
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 Yuri soon got sick of the other girls' partying as night fell and headed off to seek entertainment elsewhere. Yumi followed, not wanting to let her sister out of her sight. Neither of them saw the demon until it was too late. Yuri was not the fighter that Yumi was, but she'd always been protective of her little sister. Unfortunately, normal humans are out of their league when faced with a demon, and it wasn't long before poor Yuri was overcome and eaten alive before Yumi's terrified eyes. 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 Yuri's sorority. While several of them were rather concerned about where Yuri 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 had laughed at her. And then Hitomi had told Yumi that she didn't much care if Yuri did get eaten by a monster, and if she did, it was less than she deserved for dragging the sorority down. 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 viciously attacked Hitomi, pounding her into the floor in a rage that frightened the other sorority members. 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, where she spent the rest of the night.
Kanzoutsukamu appeared to Yumi in her jail cell, and after a brief question-and-answer session concerning just what the hell happened last night and what that thing that ate her sister was, she accepted the tsukaima's offer of power. When a lesser demon appeared soon after her release from jail, she fought and killed the demon with the help of Kanzoutsukamu. As Yumi sent the demon 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 made the contract 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 Yuri's death.
Powers
As a mahou shoujo, Yumi has a number of powers that she can call upon to fight demons and other major threats in Roanapur.
Apart from the first item, which is a houserule for all magical girl characters in this game, these powers don't really have any mechanical benefits, and are primarily used for description fluff:
- As with all mahou shoujo, Yumi can fly and run faster than normal humans.
- Yumi can enter a state that many magical girls call "eldritch vision" or "witchsight", which allows her to see the dimensions that demons move and attack in, as well as signatures of eldritch power. By spending BP for Defense, she also has a limited ability to move in these dimensions in order to avoid attacks (manifesting to normal human eyes as a form of teleportation, as Yumi disappears and reappears somewhere else) though it tends to take a lot out of her.
- She can conjure magical barriers to protect her against ranged attacks when dodging isn't enough (primarily used for Defense).
- She can conjure a number of weapons that she can use to lay hurt on her enemies. With the exception of the first item, these must be rolled for using Packrat:
- Her primary weapon, the Magical Crossbow, better covered in Gear.
- A set of throwing knives that she uses as a secondary ranged attack.
- A pair of wicked-sharp fighting knives that she uses for melee.
- An array of nasty magical traps that inflict a host of status effects on her enemies.
- She can use her blood to transmute objects she's holding into red glowing improvised weapons. She can only transmute simple things with no moving parts this way, and only if they're roughly the same size, shape and function as whatever improvised weapon she wants to create (for example, a spine taken from a demonic enemy can be used to create a spear, a giant crossbow bolt, or even a sword). If this is used to create a thrown weapon or item of ammunition, it's only good for one attack; but if this power is used to create a melee weapon, it's good for one fight, after which the weapon disintegrates.
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 automatics that she favors for fighting demons and rival magical girls. Sylvia most often works with Mr. Chang as a supernatural troubleshooter, though she's also lent aid to the Church of Violence on a number of occasions.
- Anton Lamonte: Anton is a freelance demonologist who hires out to syndicates in need of supernatural firepower for jobs. Yumi's taken down several of the demons he's brought into Roanapur, but the two have only met face-to-face once, when Yumi needed assistance (namely, his expertise in the field of ancient magical texts and writing) to take down a demon summoned by a rival demonologist. Yumi despises Anton, much like she hates anyone who summons demons, while Anton views her as a worthy, if fairly amusing, opponent.
PC
- Megan: (Professional) 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.
- Cynthia: (Professional) Though Yumi has never suffered the kind of horrible abuse that Cynthia has, the two of them have a common bond based on hatred toward their respective enemies (demons for Yumi and pedophiles for Cynthia). They first worked together with Ashi Tenshi in taking down a particularly horrible Triad lieutenant named Mak Shen, and they are currently working together to battle an Awakened Demon that preys on children.
- 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.
- 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 Yuri's death. 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.
- Somchai: (Professional, reciprocated): Somchai is a good gal to have at Yumi's back when she's on a demon hunt. But her rule about only using magical powers against the supernatural, while it's a sentiment that Yumi agrees with, is not something that Yumi herself can follow, particularly with the other major dangers that await one in Roanapur.
Character Songs
- Transformation Theme: Jigoku Nagashi - Hell Girl OST
- 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 |
