Application @ Etraya

[artofrevenge]

⏵ player information
name and pronouns: Sil | they/them
age: adult (18+)
contact: silyara & inoctavo

⏵ character information
name: Mizu
canon: Blue Eye Samurai
age: 26
canon point: 1x08 The Great Fire of 1567 & 2 years CRAU in Folkmore
history:

Canon History:

❄️ Mizu was born and survived at least two assassination attempts shortly after birth. Her mother did not.
❄️ Someone paid Mizu's nurse to hide and to raise Mizu. She grew up on the edge of Kohama until the "bad men" burned down the shack and, it seemed, her mother. Mizu swore revenge.
❄️ Mizu lived on the streets of Kohama, eating trash, and being bullied by other kids.
❄️ Mizu became Eiji's apprentice after a meteor crash. Mizu also observed all the techniques of swordsmen who came to Master Eiji for a sword and practiced daily until she mastered their techniques.
❄️ In time, Mizu left for revenge against Master Eiji's wishes.
❄️ Mizu reunited with her "mother," who convinced her to get married and settle down. Mizu married Mikio, a disgraced Samurai who trained horses. They forged a real relationship over the course of a year, and Mizu opened up about her quest for revenge for the first time.
❄️ It went to shit. Someone turned her in for reward money. Mizu killed the men who came for her. Her husband and "mother" fought over who betrayed her. Mikio killed her "mother." Mizu killed him.
❄️ Mizu tracked down and killed the first white man.
❄️ Mizu tracked down Abijah Fowler via a flesh trader named Hachi, the Shindo dojo, and Heiji Shindo, his business partner. In the process, she unwillingly picked up Ringo as an apprentice.
❄️ Mizu barely survived fighting the Four Fangs and recovered while Taigen made her promise to give him a proper duel. Since he vowed no one else would get to kill her, he accompanied Mizu to tea with Heiji Shindo. After refusing his bribes, she escaped with both Taigen's and Ringo's help. She then abandoned Taigen on the road with a promise to duel.
❄️ Mizu tracked down Madame Kaji, who agreed to provide the intel to get into Fowler's fortress in exchange for a mercy killing staged as an accident. Mizu completed the assassination but was witnessed by a young boy who told the boss. Mizu then fought his entire army in Madame Kaji's teahouse and the streets. She won. Then she let Akemi be taken away by her father's men, losing Ringo's respect.
❄️ Mizu forged straight ahead into Fowler's fortress via a series of traps and battles. She rescued Taigen and climbed the final floors from the outside. Mizu saw Fowler's plans but chose to save Taigen and escape when her sword broke.
❄️ Ringo saved them from the icy water, brought them back to Kohama, and they all recovered. Taigen left when she revealed Fowler's plans to overthrow the shogun. Ringo agreed to go to Edo with Mizu provided she saved Akemi.
❄️ Mizu infiltrated the shogun's palace, warning Madame Kaji to leave, freeing Akemi, and interrupting Fowler's victory executions. She chased him through the palace, fighting him first with Taigen's help, then on her own. She nearly lost but got the upper hand.
❄️ Fowler revealed information about her she didn't know and tried to convince her she needed him alive.

CRAU History:

❄️ Two years ago, Mizu arrived in Folkmore with the express purpose of researching more information about her remaining fathers, so when she returned home she could kill Fowler and proceed to London on her own.
❄️ Her established routine involved regularly studying at the library, completing commissions for weapons, receiving hand-to-hand fighting training from Steve Rogers, and making a couple friendships, primarily with Vergil and Asano Rin. She sparred regularly with both but came to spend additional time with them (always having excuses).
❄️ Defeating Vergil became a benchmark/goal for herself as a sign she was ready to complete her revenge (unreasonable and never to happen, but again excuses to stay). As part of that, she purchased the ability to heal herself from Thirteen, so she could better keep up with him in combat and spar him more often (he required she be healed before sparring again).
❄️ Mizu was forced to face her feelings for both Vergil and Rin when the realm came under threat of destruction and their host swept most people away into safety at one of the schools. Vergil and Rin were both missed in that sweep, and she freaked out. Mizu spent a week trying to constantly get out until Vergil returned. She ambushed him to pin him/win hand-to-hand, which led to physical intimacy, the revelation Mizu has a woman's body, and emotional intimacy sharing more about themselves. They became romantic partners. When Rin returned a week later, Mizu also made sure she was healthy, rested, and fed. They were… friends.
❄️ Emotional complications continued with Vergil "secretly" gifting Mizu her horse Kai back, Rin leaving sparking a friendship with Makie from the same world, and getting to know Vergil's family that arrived in Folkmore. Eventually, Mizu made a major mistake in her relationship with Vergil, and the fallout from that forced her to consider her priorities and goals. She wants her revenge, but she also now wants… more. The possibility of a life and happiness at least once it's over. Like revenge, if she doesn't work on that now it won't be possible then. So she's chosen to devote less of her attention and time to revenge and more of it to… people. She doesn't know what life is possible for her in her world, but she wants it to be possible.

Auriel (TDM) History:

❄️ Mizu arrived confused and met/helped some of her peers backstage while trying to figure out what was going on. She told a semi-autobiographical story of an onryo and demonstrated her abilities with a sword on stage. At the party, she tried to find allies and ways out.
❄️ Mizu eventually made a move to try to escape the castle, whence she ran into Vergil. They each thought the other might not remember them, but Mizu was able to test the waters with a comment about seeing him in a library. Vergil brought Mizu back to his room, fetched her clothes and food, and she stayed there to avoid being taken back to any of the courts.
❄️ Mizu spent the remainder of her time in Auriel trying to figure out how to go back with Vergil and the rest to Etraya. She met up with others in the now abandoned castle and used her survival skills to help provide food. She wasn't especially interested in rescuing anyone else from a court, but the need for information and allies to achieve her aim meant she reached out and worked with others.

abilities:

❄️ Basic medical skills
❄️ Hand-to-hand combat
❄️ CRAU Healing ability: active ability to heal herself when conscious, kicks in passively to a lesser degree when unconscious (enough to wake her up). So long as she can consciously decide to heal herself, she can heal any injury. However, she needs to focus to heal herself, so she hasn't mastered using it effectively while actively fighting someone/something or otherwise distracted or focused on something else.
❄️ Observation
❄️ Parkour
❄️ Survival skills
❄️ Swimming
❄️ Swordsmithing
❄️ Tracking
❄️ Weapons combat: katana, naginata primarily

personality:

Mizu grew up knowing bad men, aka her fathers, wanted to kill her, so when she tried to play with kids and her cabin was burned down killing her mother (or so she thought), she blamed herself. She swore revenge, and no matter the kindness of Master Eiji, she's sought it. She trained for years. She left when she felt prepared. As she discussed with swordfather years later and shortly before she left her world: she is an artist. Revenge is her art. So everything she does is for revenge, the way everything he does is to make swords. That's her driving factor.

Except she's learned she wants more than revenge. Mizu tried to find happiness with her mother and Mikio, her husband. She set her revenge aside then, only to be deeply betrayed by them both. At the time, she thought that taught her it wasn't possible, not for someone like her. Her time in Folkmore, however, has forced her to face her desires. They were always there, if shoved away and ignored. Mizu wants connections and relationships of various types and happiness. A life, something that never seemed possible.

Mizu is often angry by default because she carries so much of it—for herself, for her fathers, for her mother, for how so many people have treated her her whole life. However, her mood changes readily, whether happy or sad, excited or annoyed, and so on. Mizu falls back on social norms and customs, using them as tools to interact with people, many of whom otherwise would ignore her at best. She can be formal or distant when talking with people. Mizu doesn't trust friendliness directed toward her, after all, and can often get along easier in a transactional interaction. Business, an exchange, helping each other helps ourselves.

Due to her experiences, Mizu is cynical about the world and people in it. There's few people she cares about, and she's not generally motivated to help others. No one—almost no one—looks out for her, so she needs to. However, she's confident in her ability to achieve her aims and stubborn and determined to meet them. She's hardworking, pragmatic, and reliable in the rare instance she's given her word. Her determination sometimes seems like idiocy or impulsiveness, but she's usually thought things through. She's not afraid of danger and trusts in herself.

samples: one & two, three