System is 3rd Ed D10, time is Friday at 10, naming theme is 'IJN Warships', and here's my first draft of Mikasa's sheet.
ETA: Inspired by Ebony!
Name: Kakita Mikasa
Clan: Crane (by marriage, was Scorpion)
School: Bayushi Bushi
Rank: 2
Honor: 3.1
Insight: 188
Status: 1
Glory: 2.7
XP: 83+35
Earth: 3 (Stamina: 3, Willpower: 3)
Water: 3 (Strength: 3, Perception 3) (+24)
Fire: 3 (Agility: 3, Intelligence: 3)
Air: 3 (Reflexes: 3, Awareness: 3)
Void: 3
Skills:
Commerce: 2
Courtier (Political Maneuvering): 1
Defense: 5
Etiquette: 1
Iaijutsu: 2
Kenjutsu: 5
Kyujutsu: 1
Spears: 3
Performance (Music)*: 2
Athletics: 5 (+9)
Craft (Sailing): 3
Tea Ceremony: 1
Battle: 3
Horsemanship: 1
Lore (Nezumi): 1
Games (Mahjong): 2 (+2)
Advantages: (9)
Dangerous Beauty (1) - If Mikasa is less graceful and mysterious than the dark beauties her birth clan is known for, men don't seem to mind. +2k0 on Deceit rolls vs men.
Quick (2) - Mikasa naturally reacts more quickly than most. +1k0 initiative
Quick Healer (2) - A childhood of sea and spray seems to have agreed with Mikasa's constitution, and she recovers quickly. +2 Stamina for purposes of healing
Ally (Mantis)/2 (free) - Though her father captained his ship for the Scorpion, most of those he associated with were the Mantis he was born among, and Mikasa has kept in touch with one of her closer childhood friends.
Kharmic Tie/2 (free) - A passing kami was charmed enough by the couple's devotion to have tied their destinies together. Twice a session, Mikasa may roll an extra die on tasks done for Ise's sake, and she is always aware if he is Hurt.
Precise Memory (3) - A childhood spent learning navigation, and with shipping manifests as reading practice, has trained Mikasa's memory to easily store and retrieve information. She can recall anything she has seen with an intelligence roll vs TN10.
Absolute Direction (1) - As any sailor knows, one who can see and know the stars can never be truly lost, for they, unlike tortured land or troubled sea, are unchanging. Mikasa always knows which direction is north.
Disadvantages: (10)
Evil Eye (1) - Mikasa's right eye was cursed by a sea kami, and is the shade of a tropical ocean on a sunny day rather than the natural dark brown of her left eye.
Junshin (3) - Mikasa is convinced that most Scorpions are completely mistaken about the basic nature of the human soul; naturally, this does not endear her to them. -2k0 when dealing with Scorpions
Can't Lie (3) - Surviving the whims of the sea and air kami in a small wooden cockleshell leaves little room for illusions and misdirection, and Mikasa never learned to lie at all.
True Love (3) - Mikasa counts herself twice blessed, first for having found a man she can love passionately, and second for having married him and aligned their duties. Just don't tell him that, it'd swell his head.
Bayushi Bushi School
Way of the Scorpion - Scorpion bushi always seem to get the jump on opponents. Mikasa rolls additional dice equal to her School Rank on Initiative Rolls. Enemies cannot use the Combat Reflexes Advantage to trade Initiative with her. She gains a +5 bonus to her TN to Be Hit against any opponent with a lower Initiative.
Pincers and Tail - The Scorpion's feint has been the demise of many foolhardy foes. Mikasa can declare one or more Raises whenever making an attack roll. If the attack is successful, for each raise made, opponents attacking her before her next Turn must declare one additonal raise before delcaring any raises for Maneuver or effects - not including Free Raises increasing the total roll. Additionally, if an opponent attacks Mikasa and misses, she gains a number of Free Raises equal to her Air Ring on attacks against that opponent that occur before their next Turn.
Kata: The Tail's Reach, Preparation 10 minutes, duration 120 minutes, +2k0 damage vs opponents with lower initiative, -5 TNtBH or -2 TNtBH for 1 Void point
Equipment:
Yari (2k2, 3k3 if mounted, 1k2 if thrown up to 30')
Katana (3k2)
Wakizashi (2k2)
Tanto (1k1)
Yumi (3, 300')
Armor Piercing Arrows (10)
Flesh Cutter Arrows (10)
Light Armor (TNtBH +5, +5 to Stealth and Athletics TNs)
Kimono and Sandals
Traveling Pack (traveling cloak, dice and cup, flute, blanket, change of clothes, personal seal, mask, small tent, week's rations; chopsticks, coin purse, straw hat, flint and steel, tatami mat, sake cup, fishing kit, small knife, shovel)
Ivory Mask with an optical illusion of a design, in purple, that might be a face, two arguing faces, a vase, a butterfly, or something entirely different.
3 Koku, 5 Bu, 12 Zeni
Physical Description
Mikasa is of average height - perhaps 5' 4" - and possesses the lean, conditioned build expected of a female bushi. Her features, when she removes her mask, are lovely and a little predatory, both as expected from the clan of her birth, with her suntanned complexion and mismatched, unnatural eyes rendering the impression more striking than beautiful. Her hair, black and silken, which her mother taught her never to suffer to be cut, is kept in a braid for traveling, then bound up in a bun for battle and only let loose to brush the ground during her rare court appearances.
Her admirers, however, generally prefer to wax rhapsodic about great mountain peaks.
Her dress is - mostly - as expected of a dutiful wife of the Crane clan: white and powder blue and of good but not ostentatious quality, though her kimono are cut more for comfort and ease of movement than fashion and her armor is light and suited for a style of battle that involves much movement. The exception to that rule is her continued habit of wearing a Scorpion's mask - in her case, a plain oval of red-enameled steel that covers the entire face save for a narrow slit across her eyes - and carrying the red-and-black marked blades she was given at her genpukku
Personality
Mikasa is a poor fit for the usual mode of samurai society; she and her mother and father were the only samurai aboard the ship she spent most of her childhood on, and the mode of speech and action she finds most comfortable owes much more to the heimin sailors who were forever dodging around the curious child underfoot than it does to the elegance and decorum of the courts. Though her studies in the dojo of the Scorpion have taught her some measure of restraint, that is merely a thin veneer over a soul that favors forthrightness over eloquence and simple pleasures over refinement.
And if some perfumed fool who thinks that fancy rhetoric and face will change wind or tide or divert a pirate's blade has a problem with that, then he's quite free to seek more congenial company.
Background
Several years before Mikasa's birth, the Scorpion clan arranged a marriage between Bayushi Miyuki, who was lovely and possessed a knack for inspiring friendship but lacked the emotional discipline to be useful at court, and Yoritomo Hatsuharu, a skilled captain whose childhood rivals among the Mantis had ascended to positions of power and influence. The intention was that Miyuki would be able to use Hatsuharu's contacts among the Mantis to gather useful blackmail material and insight into the hidden parts of the Mantis's coastal trade.
Unfortunately for Miyuki, there weren't any, at least among Hatsuharu's circle. Loyally, she reported that fact, and, philosophically incapable of accepting her report as accurate, the Scorpion gave up on an obvious incompetent and exiled her to a quiet purgatory of travel, fresh sea air, and her husband's tender mercies.
All three parties consider that to have been the best thing that could have come out of the situation.
Mikasa is the eldest of four sisters, and Momi and Kiku seem likely to follow in their elder sister's footsteps, good only for the battlefield or marriage fodder, but Aoi, the youngest, seems to possess sufficient grace and charm to be a useful tool at court... if only she can be broken of her terrible habits of genuine sincerity and compassion. With the example of three siblings, all willful to a fault, the sensei of the Bayushi Courtier School are not hopeful.
At first, Mikasa was uncertain how to feel about the marriage her grandparents had arranged, but her husband's ill ease with refined samurai ways and gambling habits are, to her, familiar and homelike rather than being grating flaws, making it easier to see through to the strong and honorable man beneath. Her straightforward and heartfelt thanks to those of her family and his who arranged what was expected to be an unhappy and ill-starred match were quite amusingly nonplussing, and she finds that even the stuffy Crane are a better fit for her soul than the cynical Scorpion, and is happy to find herself as a loyal bushi, however low-status.
One-third of the above is a lie.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
ETA: Inspired by Ebony!
Name: Kakita Mikasa
Clan: Crane (by marriage, was Scorpion)
School: Bayushi Bushi
Rank: 2
Honor: 3.1
Insight: 188
Status: 1
Glory: 2.7
XP: 83+35
Earth: 3 (Stamina: 3, Willpower: 3)
Water: 3 (Strength: 3, Perception 3) (+24)
Fire: 3 (Agility: 3, Intelligence: 3)
Air: 3 (Reflexes: 3, Awareness: 3)
Void: 3
Skills:
Commerce: 2
Courtier (Political Maneuvering): 1
Defense: 5
Etiquette: 1
Iaijutsu: 2
Kenjutsu: 5
Kyujutsu: 1
Spears: 3
Performance (Music)*: 2
Athletics: 5 (+9)
Craft (Sailing): 3
Tea Ceremony: 1
Battle: 3
Horsemanship: 1
Lore (Nezumi): 1
Games (Mahjong): 2 (+2)
Advantages: (9)
Dangerous Beauty (1) - If Mikasa is less graceful and mysterious than the dark beauties her birth clan is known for, men don't seem to mind. +2k0 on Deceit rolls vs men.
Quick (2) - Mikasa naturally reacts more quickly than most. +1k0 initiative
Quick Healer (2) - A childhood of sea and spray seems to have agreed with Mikasa's constitution, and she recovers quickly. +2 Stamina for purposes of healing
Ally (Mantis)/2 (free) - Though her father captained his ship for the Scorpion, most of those he associated with were the Mantis he was born among, and Mikasa has kept in touch with one of her closer childhood friends.
Kharmic Tie/2 (free) - A passing kami was charmed enough by the couple's devotion to have tied their destinies together. Twice a session, Mikasa may roll an extra die on tasks done for Ise's sake, and she is always aware if he is Hurt.
Precise Memory (3) - A childhood spent learning navigation, and with shipping manifests as reading practice, has trained Mikasa's memory to easily store and retrieve information. She can recall anything she has seen with an intelligence roll vs TN10.
Absolute Direction (1) - As any sailor knows, one who can see and know the stars can never be truly lost, for they, unlike tortured land or troubled sea, are unchanging. Mikasa always knows which direction is north.
Disadvantages: (10)
Evil Eye (1) - Mikasa's right eye was cursed by a sea kami, and is the shade of a tropical ocean on a sunny day rather than the natural dark brown of her left eye.
Junshin (3) - Mikasa is convinced that most Scorpions are completely mistaken about the basic nature of the human soul; naturally, this does not endear her to them. -2k0 when dealing with Scorpions
Can't Lie (3) - Surviving the whims of the sea and air kami in a small wooden cockleshell leaves little room for illusions and misdirection, and Mikasa never learned to lie at all.
True Love (3) - Mikasa counts herself twice blessed, first for having found a man she can love passionately, and second for having married him and aligned their duties. Just don't tell him that, it'd swell his head.
Bayushi Bushi School
Way of the Scorpion - Scorpion bushi always seem to get the jump on opponents. Mikasa rolls additional dice equal to her School Rank on Initiative Rolls. Enemies cannot use the Combat Reflexes Advantage to trade Initiative with her. She gains a +5 bonus to her TN to Be Hit against any opponent with a lower Initiative.
Pincers and Tail - The Scorpion's feint has been the demise of many foolhardy foes. Mikasa can declare one or more Raises whenever making an attack roll. If the attack is successful, for each raise made, opponents attacking her before her next Turn must declare one additonal raise before delcaring any raises for Maneuver or effects - not including Free Raises increasing the total roll. Additionally, if an opponent attacks Mikasa and misses, she gains a number of Free Raises equal to her Air Ring on attacks against that opponent that occur before their next Turn.
Kata: The Tail's Reach, Preparation 10 minutes, duration 120 minutes, +2k0 damage vs opponents with lower initiative, -5 TNtBH or -2 TNtBH for 1 Void point
Equipment:
Yari (2k2, 3k3 if mounted, 1k2 if thrown up to 30')
Katana (3k2)
Wakizashi (2k2)
Tanto (1k1)
Yumi (3, 300')
Armor Piercing Arrows (10)
Flesh Cutter Arrows (10)
Light Armor (TNtBH +5, +5 to Stealth and Athletics TNs)
Kimono and Sandals
Traveling Pack (traveling cloak, dice and cup, flute, blanket, change of clothes, personal seal, mask, small tent, week's rations; chopsticks, coin purse, straw hat, flint and steel, tatami mat, sake cup, fishing kit, small knife, shovel)
Ivory Mask with an optical illusion of a design, in purple, that might be a face, two arguing faces, a vase, a butterfly, or something entirely different.
3 Koku, 5 Bu, 12 Zeni
Physical Description
Mikasa is of average height - perhaps 5' 4" - and possesses the lean, conditioned build expected of a female bushi. Her features, when she removes her mask, are lovely and a little predatory, both as expected from the clan of her birth, with her suntanned complexion and mismatched, unnatural eyes rendering the impression more striking than beautiful. Her hair, black and silken, which her mother taught her never to suffer to be cut, is kept in a braid for traveling, then bound up in a bun for battle and only let loose to brush the ground during her rare court appearances.
Her admirers, however, generally prefer to wax rhapsodic about great mountain peaks.
Her dress is - mostly - as expected of a dutiful wife of the Crane clan: white and powder blue and of good but not ostentatious quality, though her kimono are cut more for comfort and ease of movement than fashion and her armor is light and suited for a style of battle that involves much movement. The exception to that rule is her continued habit of wearing a Scorpion's mask - in her case, a plain oval of red-enameled steel that covers the entire face save for a narrow slit across her eyes - and carrying the red-and-black marked blades she was given at her genpukku
Personality
Mikasa is a poor fit for the usual mode of samurai society; she and her mother and father were the only samurai aboard the ship she spent most of her childhood on, and the mode of speech and action she finds most comfortable owes much more to the heimin sailors who were forever dodging around the curious child underfoot than it does to the elegance and decorum of the courts. Though her studies in the dojo of the Scorpion have taught her some measure of restraint, that is merely a thin veneer over a soul that favors forthrightness over eloquence and simple pleasures over refinement.
And if some perfumed fool who thinks that fancy rhetoric and face will change wind or tide or divert a pirate's blade has a problem with that, then he's quite free to seek more congenial company.
Background
Several years before Mikasa's birth, the Scorpion clan arranged a marriage between Bayushi Miyuki, who was lovely and possessed a knack for inspiring friendship but lacked the emotional discipline to be useful at court, and Yoritomo Hatsuharu, a skilled captain whose childhood rivals among the Mantis had ascended to positions of power and influence. The intention was that Miyuki would be able to use Hatsuharu's contacts among the Mantis to gather useful blackmail material and insight into the hidden parts of the Mantis's coastal trade.
Unfortunately for Miyuki, there weren't any, at least among Hatsuharu's circle. Loyally, she reported that fact, and, philosophically incapable of accepting her report as accurate, the Scorpion gave up on an obvious incompetent and exiled her to a quiet purgatory of travel, fresh sea air, and her husband's tender mercies.
All three parties consider that to have been the best thing that could have come out of the situation.
Mikasa is the eldest of four sisters, and Momi and Kiku seem likely to follow in their elder sister's footsteps, good only for the battlefield or marriage fodder, but Aoi, the youngest, seems to possess sufficient grace and charm to be a useful tool at court... if only she can be broken of her terrible habits of genuine sincerity and compassion. With the example of three siblings, all willful to a fault, the sensei of the Bayushi Courtier School are not hopeful.
At first, Mikasa was uncertain how to feel about the marriage her grandparents had arranged, but her husband's ill ease with refined samurai ways and gambling habits are, to her, familiar and homelike rather than being grating flaws, making it easier to see through to the strong and honorable man beneath. Her straightforward and heartfelt thanks to those of her family and his who arranged what was expected to be an unhappy and ill-starred match were quite amusingly nonplussing, and she finds that even the stuffy Crane are a better fit for her soul than the cynical Scorpion, and is happy to find herself as a loyal bushi, however low-status.
One-third of the above is a lie.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."