Yuuka Kazami

[PepsiYuuka]

Abilities & Battle Stuff

Fighting Style: Yuuka doesn't really stick to any one style of fighting, and is comfortable fighting both at a range and in close quarters. However, she doesn't tend to move around a lot when she fights, basically rooting herself to one location on the ground (or in the air above the fight if a vantage point would be useful) and firing or striking from there. She also doesn't tend to take fighting too seriously, and is a bit overly confident in herself. So, often times she will trash talk enemies- or at least strike them with strange metaphors meant to be insults that go over their heads, even in the midst of battle. Usually her moves are meant to strike just once and very hard when they do, as opposed to being rapidly repeated or anything, and her reaction times aren't terribly quick. Though she carries herself as if she has an air of mystery and charisma, she is not above savaging enemies either if they upset her in any way. She enjoys striking fear into people, even just momentarily- not only her opponents, but observers of her fights as well, as she feeds on it as a Youkai.

Anyone willing to stop and have a conversation with her during a fight, though, may be treated a bit more pleasantly- though she still prioritizes winning over socialization. However, she may be more likely to joke about and have fun if her opponent is. And not like, literally kill them with no remorse the moment she finds an opening in their defense.

Moves:

600 OM: Flower Shooting (Requires Ranged, Area Attack) - With a flick of her parasol, Yuuka summons a barrage of flower-shaped bullets in a line about a meter long horizontally in front of her. After about a second, these rapidly fire out at about the speed of a fairly fast baseball in a conical shape for about 5 seconds, reaching a maximum distance of 30 meters and width of 10 meters before their magic fades an they dispel. The downside is that further away, the bullets are farther apart and deal far less damage than they would at close range.[/color]

Yuuka can also charge this attack for about 3 seconds to fire a more shotgun-like volley of bullets. These are more powerful and have a wider radius near her, around 5 meters, but do not go as far- only about 15 meters- before dissipating.

Technically, Yuuka could move, change shot direction, or turn while firing this if she wanted to, but it would require taking her attention off of what she's firing at. Not to mention, she sure isn't going anywhere fast. She's usually too focused on fighting to move more than a few inches to either side. This is her form of a "basic attack", and hence getting hit by one or two of the bullets would be roughly equivalent to being punched with equivalent strength and windup time. While this attack itself doesn't require all of her concentration beyond the first casting, it would drain her attention enough to distract her from casting anything else, hence it's not able to be used with anything else. It takes about as much out of her as anything else for an out of shape, middle aged lady.

600 OM: Parasol (Requires Physical Strength, Area Defense) - Yuuka's parasol, in addition to being able to fire bullets for her other moves, can feasibly be used as a bludgeoning weapon as well. While not supernaturally sturdy, it is a fair bit moreso than your average parasol only used for blocking the sun. Think something similar to a golf club in sturdiness, like it was made to take abuse. It's about two and a half feet long, pale pink in color, and far more effective at hitting people when closed than open. Usually she uses it in a blunt force trauma way, but technically she could also impale someone with the metal tip of it if she used enough force. Both of these damage methods feel equivalent to what they logically should feel like as being smacked or stabbed by a hard metal pole, taking into account the user's attack and target's defense.

Since she always has it in hand, her windup time before using it simply depends on her reaction time to what's going on around her. (So, not exactly lightning quick.) Naturally, it's a bit heavier than most parasols, but Yuuka herself doesn't even seem to notice this. She can get a bit winded after repeated use of it. However, Yuuka also gets winded walking at anything faster than three miles an hour, so this isn't exactly surprising and owes more to her low endurance than the attack itself.

When it is opened, it is magically reinforced to be able to serve as a shield as well. It's about 5 feet in diameter and obviously, convex. Due to its shape it tends to naturally deflect things off at an angle as opposed to being good at blocking them head on. After all, it is lightweight and not the sturdiest material even when reinforced, prone to tearing and needing repair between fights if it absorbs too much damage. Because of its deflection property it is highly impractical to use while in motion, as more often than not that just results in attacks being deflected into Yuuka's face or kneecaps because the positioning wasn't quite right. It takes as much time to open as one would expect it would take an old lady (sans dementia) to open an umbrella, so like 3-5 seconds depending on if she's distracted or not. She cannot attack while the umbrella is open and serving as a shield, as it requires both of her hands and concentration to keep up the magical reinforcement.

It also smells nice, much like many of Yuuka's things.

600 OM: [Tier 1 Super Move] Master Spark (Requires Ranged, Area Attack) - By standing in place and charging for around 5 seconds, Yuuka concentrates her energy into her parasol in the form of a powerful beam of magical energy. The beam's direction is marked out by a thin beam of harmless light for about 3 seconds before it is fired. When it is fired, the beam is about 10 meters in diameter and 40 meters in range before it peters out. It advances at about the speed of a gently thrown object. It is most powerful towards the center, so while the damage near the center of the beam would be heavy, grazing the outside will not deal as much damage. The beam continues firing for about 5 seconds, after which it "closes" back into the original harmless beam of light then dissipates. Yuuka can't move or perform other actions while using or charging this attack, and she feels fairly winded after its use.



Transformations:

1000 OM: [Tier 1 Power-up] Inflorescence

ATK: +2
DEF: +2
SPD: +0
TEC: +1

Drawing energy into herself from nature (not unlike the Spirit Bomb, in a way), flowers burst into bloom around Yuuka's person. Well, primarily in her hair. Other flowers near her will also turn in her direction, if there are any. But these are all harmless, visual effects- no more than a magic trick. Instead, the majority of this energy is used to reinforce her natural magical ability. Mostly to enhance the power behind her attacks, or the strength of her skin- but to some extent the rush of energy increases her awareness as well.

While beautiful, all things are temporary. When the powerup fades as she runs out of energy, the flowers on her wither and die, petals falling to the ground and disintegrating, leaving her as before.

Reference Image, though the exact flowers that bloom and their colors probably vary based on location and season- it's just the native flora. However, the effects are still the same.



Fodder: Yuuka, as a flower Youkai, can impart energy to make flowers bloom or withered flowers bloom again. She can also make flowers turn and change direction to face something or someone. Potentially she could also make flowers wilt, but since she likes their company, she wouldn't do that. It also seems she has a fairly keen sense of what would natively grow in an area, if anything- though this is likely just learned information. Of course, this wouldn't apply to any other sentient flowers or any flower-based attacks, since those aren't her domain. She also can't do anything extremely unnatural with flowers as it stands, like make them start growing inside someone or something (or even make summer flowers bloom in the dead of winter), since she's a force of nature and unnatural things like that aren't her domain either.