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Account Name: Kat Taking Zara Cherene's slot (dropping).
Basic Character Information
| Shiho Saiga |
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| Nickname: Beni | Race: Human | | Age: 28 | Affiliation: Other | | Gender: Female | Threat: 0 |
Achievements: -
Profession: Oiran Oiran are prestigious, high-class courtesans. In order to become an oiran, a woman is educated in a range of skills, including the traditional arts of tea ceremony, flower arranging, and calligraphy. Oiran also learn to play traditional instruments. Clients expect them to be well-read and able to converse and write with wit and elegance. Oiran can use their performance skills, be they song, dance or anything else, to influence others and use them as various buffs.
Onna-Bugeisha An Onna-Bugeisha is a formally recognized female warrior belonging to the nobility class. They are members of the samurai class and are trained in the use of a weapon, usually a sword or spear, to protect their household, family, and honor. This profession applies generally to melee weapons.
Position: A Single Flower Petal in the Breeze
Physical Appearance
| Height: 5'9" | Weight:155 lbs | | Hair: Black | Eyes: Pink |
Clothing/Accessories: Shiho can almost always be seen wearing a kimono or yukata (summer kimono), although how she wears it depends on what she's doing. She often wears the top of the kimono off-shoulder, with an obi around her midriff to hold it up. When she's working, she'll wear the kimono bunched around the waist underneath the obi so that it exposes her legs and gives her a little more freedom of movement. She wears black leggings underneath this.
On her days off she'll wear a full kimono set with all of the layers, properly draping her legs, although she still prefers the top off-shoulder. And on special occasions, she of course brings out her most extravagant outfits: taller shoes, a longer obi with the knot worn in the front, and her hair decorated with golden pins. No matter what she's doing, Shiho always wears black lacquered okobo sandals with tabi socks. If the height or weight of the shoes has any affect on her, she doesn't show it. Though she has been known to step out of them and go barefoot in particularly fierce battles, many often get defeated by her while she is wearing them as if they are nothing more than flip flops.
General Appearance: Shiho is a tall, pale woman with silken, midnight tresses that provide an extreme contrast to her bright, hot-pink eyes. She has soft, ivory skin, although it has not remained unmarked. Many scars can be found on her body, almost all of them old sword wounds. The paleness of her skins helps hide them. Her face has remained free of scars so far. For makeup, she usually wears shades of red or purple eye shadow, and her lips are usually painted a bright red.
Her already significant height boosted by her okobo sandals, plus the way she moves with sweeping elegance, cuts a grandiose figure. Her voice lilts on a lower range, as a mezzo-soprano. In her presence people may note the scent of jasmine in the air.
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The Character
Personality:

Shiho Saiga has seen both the dark and light of the world and has come out a tolerant, though rather apathetic, woman. Her life has not been the easiest;her will to live has been tested, but never broken. But her experiences have left her with a big focus on herself and a disregard for anything outside of 'self'. Most of Shiho's development took place in the more ruthless world of courtesans where everyone only worked for their own gain and tried to undermine their competitors. Thus outside of the red light district in a more benign setting, Shiho's lack of empathy of those who suffer around her can make her seem heartless. And when she truly has something she wants done, she will cut any path to get there, whether it follows rules or breaks them and whether someone else will suffer for it or not. She'll also usually go about it in a covert way, not making her intentions obvious, thus she can appear to some to be a rather crafty individual.
What saves her from coming off as a wholly bad spirit is the fact that she doesn't 'want' very often. Most of the time she is content to be passive. Shiho has no craving for power or fame, but that's probably because she already had a taste of it at the height of her popularity as a courtesan. Although it was brief, she knew what it felt like to be Number One. And although the glory was great, she could never be consumed by it. By that time her eyes were wide open, and she realized how tiring it was to have to be some semblance of perfect all night and day. Her fans may have worshiped her, but their adoration was balanced by the jealousy and hatred of all of the other courtesans vying for her position. It was when she was at the top that she realized the neutrality of the world. Good things always came with an equal amount of bad.
Shiho now evaluates life by that standard. She likes to experience the world with this new understanding, likes to evaluate the good and the bad and look for the flip side of the coin whenever something happens to her. And she also searches for something that is possibly only one. Something that is good with no true opposite. Or even something evil with no balanced good.
Hometown: Born in Wano Country (NW), claims Kanraku Country (NW) as her hometown.
Kanraku Details Name of Island: 歓楽の国 Kanraku no Kuni/Kanraku Country Location of Island: New World General Information: Kanraku is a single sakura-shaped island in the New World, in close proximity to Wano Country, the land of the samurai. Like it's sibling island, Kanraku is not affiliated with the World Government. It instead depends on Wano Country for all of it's military needs, hardly ever needing them. Women make up most of the permanent residents of the island, although there are so many men visiting so often the population looks balanced to those passing through. The island is divided into six districts, the two southernmost being the 'Willow World' and other three existing as class-separated districts of the 'Cherry World'. The Willow World belongs to Geisha, beautiful entertainers who host large parties in teahouses for respected clients. The Cherry World belongs to courtesans, separated into low, middle, and high-class. The lower end, of course, offer cheaper and more 'accessible' girls to their clients. The middle- and high-class districts are Oiran trained just as strictly as geisha and are first and foremost prominent artists. High-class Oiran cost much more than Geisha, and the particularly prestigious women of the Cherry World take their own clients as they desire, with the right to refuse anyone they dislike. The island is a timocracy, only property owners may participate in government, and usually these districts have their own small body of power and are not concerned with what the other five are doing. Each district has a society of House Mothers: Older, conniving women who own the individual Geisha/Oiran house, and run the tea-houses. Mothers pass down their responsibilities to the next generation in their own house, or pay another house for an heir. Usually the heir is the most successful Geisha or Oiran in the house, but the decision is ultimately up to the House Mother. There are small sections in the Willow and Cherry Worlds that are taken up by regular families, usually retired courtesans who have a permanent man, married or not. These families can own property, but are heavily discouraged from participating in government affairs. Kanraku sees a regular influx of young girls to their country, almost always from a destitute family that is willing to sell their daughter to a House Mother. Very rarely will girls sold in Kanraku ever see their real families again. Instead they gain 'sisters' in the form of girls who were also sold to the same house, and then the 'Mother' who owns the house and makes the rules. Girls sold to either the Cherry or Willow world do not necessarily stay there. Unruly children or dishonored young geisha can be sold by their House Mother to the Cherry World. And if a Willow House Mother takes a shine to a girl from the Cherry World (before she has been fully 'introduced' to her job) she may offer to buy the girl. To visitors of the island, Kanraku is a place of entertainment and pleasure. Beautiful girls in exotic clothes with painted faces. It seems like a flower world of grace and allure. Behind the curtains, however, is a vicious cutthroat rivalry among women who each want nothing more than to be the best, and will do anything short of killing to sabotage their competition. Once money and fame is involved, not even girls of the same house are safe from each other. Status is weighed by beauty, artistic ability, and how much money a girl earns for her house. Because they are sold to House Mothers, it is often every girl's personal goal to pay off their debt. After the debt is repaid they are technically free to leave Kanraku. However, being pampered and trained in special arts that are not as useful to the rest of the world often traps women in the country unless they marry (or find a permanent paramour). Shape of the Island: Sakura blossom shaped. Weather: The northern half is eternally autumn while the southern half experiences eternal spring. Illustration
History:
Spoiler: click to toggle What blooms in red is the lycoris flower, but what blooms even redder is this play of fate.
Shiho was born into a life of adversity. The Saiga’s weren’t wealthy or even well known, and that’s why it was so important that Momochi Saiga father a son to carry on in his stead and take care of the family. It was such a big deal for the destitute family to have a male that would grow up to become something great and worthy of praise that the Saiga parents tried every folktale and superstition said to conceive a boy instead of a girl. Nine months passed and the day was looking to be bright and full of cheer, but fate had something different in mind for the Saiga’s. All of their hard work ended in a bundle of failure, in the form of a delicate baby girl. Enter Shiho, the one who should have been a boy.
Shiho’s father felt nothing but shame and regret for his child, and this colored everything a nasty shade. Momochi Saiga refused to even hold his daughter, and Shiho’s mother was distraught. Still, it wasn’t the mother’s place to complain, so Shiho grew up in this kind of household, neglected by her father and barely taken care of by her mother. She was quiet and shy, and by the age of ten the girl seemed to be a constant blight upon her parents; Shiho was just another mouth to feed. Soon after her birthday, her parents discovered they were once again meant to be blessed with a child. Nine months later, Nobuyuki Saiga was born, a son, a bright light in the family that quickly threatened to eliminate the shadow of his sister. It didn't take long. Before Shiho turned 11, her parents quietly made the decision that they could not afford two children. Momochi took his daughter to the neighboring country, Kanraku. Having already decided to sell his own daughter, it wasn't hard for Momochi to sink one step lower, and take Shiho from house to house to see how much money he could get. He started in the high-class Cherry World, the district that would possibly pay the absolute most for Shiho. It wasn't a long road after that. Although she was still young, Shiho's perfect porcelain skin, graceful features, and peculiar pink eyes guaranteed that she would be a head turner. She was sold to one of the most prestigious Oiran houses in Kanraku, and immediately began lessons in fan language, flower arrangement, dancing, and playing the shamisen.
True to prediction, Shiho blossomed into an undeniable beauty, and by the age of sixteen she was already the eye of many-a-man. The teachings at the were surprisingly harsh, and young Shiho learned far more about the world than she ever should have. She adopted a sort of apathy about her and pushed herself headlong into her new profession, and after a bit of time Shiho found that she was actually quite sought after. Completely opposite to Momochi Saiga's regrets, Shiho was everything her House Mother, Rin, hoped she'd be. Not only a well-mannered child, but also a talented artist. To increase her appeal, Rin purposefully dangled Shiho in front of men's eyes without letting anyone have a taste. All the way up until Shiho was eighteen, when she was debuted under the stage name Beni.
A beautiful young woman yet untouched, Shiho's coming-of-age ceremony was an auction to the highest bidder, the ending bid nearly setting a record and paying off half of her debt to her House Mother in one fell swoop. Even among numerous beautiful girls, Shiho was some kind of goddess, and it didn’t take long after her ceremony for her to garner a rather sizeable client base.
At the age of twenty-one Shiho was the envy of every man. She was well-paid and taken care of by many suitors, and quickly became a local celebrity among the upper-class. She was growing by the day in name, and the disappointment of the Saiga family had become a woman of some high repute. With all this notoriety came a rush of business, and Shiho found that whatever free time she might have had was quickly being eaten up by her increasing clientele. She quickly became frustrated by her lack of free time, and Shiho resolved to find a hobby. No distraction seemed suitable, that is until she gained an established beau, a no-name samurai from the Wano Country who afforded Shiho because of his success in the shipping business, not because of his power as a swordsman. His form was weak, his body was shitty, but still the blade entranced the young courtesan. She convinced him to teach her, and even though he was a terrible swordsman and an even worse teacher, Shiho quickly found a love for the sword. It's cold, sharp beauty a sharp contrast to the soft, warm world of pleasure Shiho had thrived in.
It didn’t take long for the young prodigy Shiho to master the way of the blade through her ‘unusual’ methods of learning. And well, for being a self-taught swordswoman, Shiho was actually quite proficient. She challenged her suitors after-the-fact to duels, and shamed many a high-class male with her skill. She quickly rose to fame in the Cherry World as “the woman to conquer any man.” Shiho became even more sought-after and was able to charge exorbitant prices for her unique services. This is how her true legacy, that which her father had nearly denied her, would be born. An egregiously wealthy samurai-turned-noble sought Shiho’s bed and sword, and after a month of time with her he was ready to take her as a wife.
But in the Cherry World no river flowed smooth. Rumors spread, jealously reigned. Already angry courtesans that Shiho had beaten out time and time again were furious for having their business wrenched away from them by a woman who had seen herself rise to the pinnacle of success not once, but twice. There was talk of trickery and deceit, and all manner of nasty things were said about the prestigious Shiho Saiga. At the age of twenty-three she had accomplished so very much, and it seemed the world was ready balance itself out by making it’s ire known. Shiho's competition briefly aligned themselves against her, viciously threatening her. Her House Mother Rin feared that she had gone too far, and that reaching for too much good fortune would end only in tragedy. Rin hesitated to name Shiho her heir. To Shiho, who had already earned far more for the house than the debt she'd owed, the hesitation was a revelation. She quickly realized that she only enjoyed her life in the Cherry World because of her success. But she was not in love with the life of a courtesan, and she was not in love with the noble-samurai who vied for her hand in marriage. So she gave a deep bow to House Mother Rin, and found the first ship off the island. With no friends and no connections, the once-again nameless Shiho was forced to start over. The ship ended up carrying her across the sea, out of the New World to lands far beyond.
Shiho hopes to put her past as a courtesan behind her, and instead focus on her new love, swordplay. Though many paramours gave her individual tips, most of her knowledge came from the first samurai who taught her. He was a student of the Hasuryuu style, and mentioned that he had learned it outside of Wano country, although he never said where. Thus Shiho searches for a teacher of the style, and searches for many more battles along the way that she can learn from.
Abilities and Possessions
Combat: Shiho is a beginning learner of the Hasu sword style (Hasuryuu) which focuses on taking into account and adapting to an opponent's weapons, rather than focusing on dominating and distinct stances for one's own sword. The sword style features many different postures, designed to win at any price. It's adaptability includes fighting with little to no armor, with both one-handed and two-handed techniques. This style is stronger in brawls and duels rather than large scale battles. Shiho wields a wakizashi, shorter than a typical katana, and most commonly uses one-handed forms. She follows the Hasuryuu ideal of 'do anything to win' but is inexperienced fighting against the many weapons of the world, which Hasuryuu centers on teaching the counters of. Weaponry: One iron Wakizashi named Horei (保冷) and one wooden shamisen named Kako (過去). Items: N/A Beli: 500,000 SD Earned: 0 Stat Points: 32 Advancement Points: 0 SD Remaining: 0 Stats:
- Used for Stats: 32
- Used for Fortune: 0
- Strength: 7
- Speed: 8
- Stamina: 17 (8+9)
- Accuracy: 9
- Fortune: 8
General Traits Fate of the Mighty (3 Traits) - By placing traits in Fated, you lock them until the next time you earn a trait. You may put as many traits as you have into fated. In the meantime, you get a temporary boost of (# of traits in fated, multiplied by 3) to your stamina stat.
Professional Traits In-Training (1 Trait) - This is the equivalent of Fated for the character’s Professional Skills, but no paths exist for this. General traits may not be spent to purchase In-Training.
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Devil Fruit Name: N/A Devil Fruit Type: N/A Devil Fruit Ability: N/A
Techniques
Regular Technique Points: 16 Used Regular Technique Points: 0 Special Technique Points: 0 Used Special Technique Points: 0
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Edited by Kat, Jul 23 2015, 04:16 AM.
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