Character Name: Hikari Asakura.
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Fandom: OC of Bleach/Shaman King.
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Date Of Birth: June 21
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Alias:
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Apparent Age: 17.
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Origin: Japan.
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Race: Shaman.
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Height: 5'3".
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Weight: 127lbs.
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Gender: Female.
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Physical Description: Hikari was born blonde but has recently taken to dying her hair pink. It isn't unusual to see her with a blonde halo when she needs to dye her hair again. She also has very bright, almost unnatural blue eyes.
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Known Relatives:
Hao Asakura: Father - Unknown.
Meiko: Mother - Dead.
Yoh Asakura: Uncle - Alive.
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Religion:
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Skills: Virtuoso; she can play just about any musical instrument and has great set of vocal cords. Baking but she's not very good at cooking like making curry and such.
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Abilities: Heightened senses including a sixth; can sense and read aura/spiritual pressure.
Reishi: Reishi is an ability that Shamans are rarely born with. It’s the ability to read the hearts of others. It’s very hard to control and is even the reason Hao Asakura has gone more or less insane and developed his desire to eliminate the human race and create a world for Shamans. Hikari was born with this ability, as Hao was before her. Hikari has no control over this; she doesn't even know she has this ability.
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Alignment: Neutral.
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Personality: Hikari is very shy and timid when you first meet her. She has her occasional outbursts where she's sort of an oddball, but she acts like this only when she feels comfortable or wants to make someone smile. Also a bit of an airhead at times. Though on the outside, after getting to know her a bit, Hikari comes off as very understanding and caring but on the inside Hikari harbors dark feelings of hatred and anger. No one truly knows this about Hikari though as she herself even dislikes that she has such feelings. She has a stutter that tends to go away after talking with someone for a while.
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Powers:
Hyoui-Gattai (
憑依合体 Spirit Unity or Over Soul Merge) is the earliest form of Over Soul show in the manga and anime. Instead of using a medium to manifest the spirit into the real world, it uses the shaman's body and allows them to take over the body for as long as necessary. Because it is a form of possession and it doesn't manifest the spirits in the real world, this form of Over Soul barely uses furyoku.
Over Soul(O.S For Short) is the result of a Shaman placing his guardian ghost into an object (Medium) to create a powerful weapon, or to manifest the ghost into the real world. The Over Soul represents the ultimate form of furyoku manipulation for a Shaman. An Over Soul is the metaphysical construct of an apparition using a shaman's furyoku and a medium to gain corporeal properties. An Over Soul 'actualizes' the knowledge and memories of an apparition and allows their memories to manifest essentially as magical powers. They are composed entirely of furyoku and being so, there is no actual matter. An Over Soul can only be damaged by another, this renders all form of conventional weaponry useless, as there is no matter to interact with. While any spirit can be molded into an Over Soul, their attributes depend solely upon the spirit's ego--or identity. Depending on their ego, the ghost can be molded by the shaman into any shape or form the shaman desires, enabling the direct display of their abilities to protect the shaman.
Zenki and Kouki: Two powerful Shikigami that were terrorizing a Feudal Japanese Village when Hao Asakura, in one of his previous lives, used his Onmyōji magic to capture and transform them into guardians for his own uses. They were once used to guard Hao’s Chō-Senjiryakketsu but have more recently been transferred into Hikari’s possession by sealing them inside her scars. When called, Zenki and Kouki appear as nine foot tall beasts, ready to do their masters bidding.
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Restrictions:
Hyoui-Gattai: It drains the Shaman of physical energy and spiritual energy but at a slower rate than an OverSoul.
OverSoul: Eats away at spiritual energy during its use. When a Shaman runs out of spiritual energy, the OverSoul abruptly ends and the connection with the medium and the spirit is destroyed until the Shaman can regain energy.
Zenki and Kouki: In order for Hikari to call the twin spirits from her seals, she has to trace the five-point stars on the inside of both her palms in her own blood. They also consume her spiritual energy at a higher rate than a usual OverSoul. If her energy falters or dips too low while they're in use, Zenki and Kouki can and will go berserk; even harming Hikari.
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Special Techniques: Tomo OverSoul: An OverSoul with the very first Spirit that Hikari had ever used; a cheetah from a zoo in Japan that passed away with regret. When she uses Tomo, Hikari usually puts the spirit into a medium such as her shoes or she's been known to put him in leggings before since she left her shoes behind. When this happens, her Spiritual Energy transforms her shoes into knee-high boots made with cheetah fur and leather straps that travel higher up her thigh. The heel itself is very thin and the tip of her boots are designed to look like the paws of a cheetah. With this, Hikari has the ability to move at five times the speed she would normally be able to move. After some training, Hikari has been able to extend the reach of her OverSoul in that not only her shoes are effected, but she gains Spiritually Created gloves that have the matching Cheetah fur and leather straps but also creates thin metal claws over her fingers. So she becomes more effective in a fight.
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Super Techniques:
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Super Forms:
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Class: Shaman.
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Weapons and Precious Items: Bright neon orange headphones that she borrowed from Yoh. A tribal necklace she made herself out of a thin strip of leather as the necklace and Tomo's fang as the pendant.
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Phobias: She has an uncontrollable fear of fire that leaves her paralyzed.
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Illnesses: None.
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Sexual Preferences: Bisexual.
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Occupation: Student and Hostess at the Asakura Inn.
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History: Hikari Asakura was born to Hao Asakura and one of his followers, a woman simply named Meiko. After several attempts of pregnancy, when Hao found out Meiko was in fact with child and was healthy, Hao allegedly killed himself in front of Meiko. Surprisingly Meiko hardly had a reaction to this and continued on living for her and her unborn daughter. Four months later, Meiko gave birth to healthy baby girl. Several days out of the hospital Hikari was brought to an orphanage. Meiko had commit suicide after having her child.
Hikari was raised in the orphanage. Everyone expected the young and healthy child to be adopted quickly but as time went on, hopes died. When Hikari was old enough to converse with the other children, when she should be making friends and having fun, it was soon discovered that Hikari was ‘different’. During the children’s play time, she always sat by herself beside a window or if they were outside, she would stare off in the distance for hours. She was thought of as ‘just shy’ up until her drawings were discovered. Besides the drawings she was asked to draw for school purposes, Hikari had a stash of other pictures she had drawn. They depicted some of the children, specifically the mean hearted, with dark ‘shadows’ standing beside them. On all the drawings of the other children and even the staff of the orphanage, everyone had what could be considered as ‘aura’s’ surrounding them. Each with different colors. When questioned about these drawings, Hikari responded in a deadpan tone ‘it’s what I see’.
Because of these strange drawings the staff began to worry and tried desperately to help Hikari. For a while it seemed to work. They would spend extra time with her, talking to her and asking how she felt. But after two months of this Hikari told them that ‘they were just worried about her being different’. After that, she became unresponsive to the staff members. The children became increasingly mean to Hikari after this. They called her weird and strange but nothing fazed her.
Three years later, oddities only increased around Hikari. Unexplainable happenings began to occur around the orphanage. Some of the staff attributed the ‘phenomenon’ to Hikari, who had been making ‘imaginary friends’ for the last year or more. The children, instead of becoming more aggressive toward Hikari, called her ‘cursed’ and began to leave her alone. One day was particularly difficult for Hikari. The girl was busy with her daily ritual of bringing snacks to the edge of the yard outside the orphanage, but on her way there, one of the older boys got into an argument with the girl. He demanded that her snacks be given to him and proceeded to call her names. Hikari was initially untouched by the words, but still refused to give up the snacks. She claimed they were for ‘her friends’. The boy began to show aggressive behavior toward her by pushing her to the ground, kicking her and the like. The staff stepped in before anything worse could happen. It wasn’t until the next day, when Hikari found him torturing a baby bird whom had fallen from its nest, that she responded. She screamed and shouted at the boy and even attacked him as she cried. The rest of the day she cried, muttering to herself how she hated ‘them’. ‘They’ were the reason her friends were always sad.
That evening, Hikari went to the edge of the yard again, food in hand. She was still upset and to make matters worse, the bird from earlier had passed away. She began to cry again, ‘I hate them’. On her sixth time having shouted this, the orphanage broke out into screams of terror. Hikari raced back, only to find everyone inside had been lit on fire, screaming as they clutched at the sacks of melting skin on their bodies. The heat was intense but the building itself had yet to start on fire. In fact, it was the bodies themselves that started the flames. Everyone inside the orphanage had self-combusted all at once.
Hikari however saw the true culprit. It was made entirely of flame with eyes as golden as the sun at noon. The creature, small in size, stood beside the bodies with its maw chewing restlessly at their burning flesh. With each bite, the skin melted further; bone turned to ash in an instant. It was eating them. Devouring them and reducing their bodies to ash in the process. Hikari’s fear of anything fire was born on this day.
Only Hikari and a staff member, who had gone into town during the time, survived. Hikari was transferred to another orphanage quickly; the staff member would spend the rest of her life, insane and scared of Hikari whom she blamed for the accident. Upon investigation, there was no evidence that the fire had been started by any single person. Instead it was ruled as strictly an accident; a candle may have started the fire.
At the new orphanage Hikari remained reclusive toward the others. The children there had no interest in Hikari and left her alone; along with the workers. Instead of caring of the mental state the girl was in, everyone pushed her aside, letting her do as she pleased, even if that meant walking into the woods by herself. She spent almost a year at the orphanage, neglected by ‘them’. Once more however, she claimed to have made friends. Friends that lived in the woods. She drew pictures of her new friends; mystical appearing creatures, things that don’t exist. Some were terrifying in appearance, even for a child to have drawn, and others appeared to be something out of folklore legends.
Just shy of having been at the new orphanage for a year, strange things began to happen once more. Hikari naturally worried, even trying to sleep out in the woods. Anything to stay away from the orphanage. The happenings continued to occur however. Things were misplaced, papers thrown around the room as if a wind had blown through, even the lighting began to give out at random. No one thought to ask Hikari, who saw the culprit. It was simply mischievous nature spirits. However, these spirits only appeared when something was about to happen; before earthquakes and the like.
These strange things were the reason why Yoh Asakura came to the orphanage. He had been in the area, investigating the strange happenings at Hikari’s previous orphanage; more importantly, the fire. When arriving at this orphanage, Yoh quickly made an excuse to inspect the building. When he located the source, he told the orphanage owners that it was faulty wiring in the basement and he could fix it within a few weeks for free. So he was hired. But he, like Hikari, knew it wasn’t bad wires.
It wasn’t until his third day arriving at the orphanage that Yoh discovered Hikari, running off into the woods on her own one morning. When he questioned the staff, they made no attempt to hide the fact that they hardly paid attention to the girl. This seemed to upset Yoh; even more so after discovering her information. On the fifth day Yoh ditched his usual routine of trying to talk the devious little spirits out of the orphanage and instead hunted down Hikari. She had been in the woods since the day he asked about her; starving, dirty but hardly alone. Her friends, spirits of the woods and from long forgotten temples were with the young girl. Even low ranked demons existed with her, keeping her happy.
Yoh made contact with Hikari that day by talking directly to the spirits, unlike the kids who mocked her. He even held conversations with one of the snowy white fox spirits who had an otherwise distasteful view on anyone who wasn’t Hikari. Hikari watched in sheer awe. This man. This stranger. He wasn’t like ‘them’. He was like ‘her’. After that day, Yoh took Hikari under his wing. He explained to her what he was and what she was as well. Though it was difficult to explain to a five year old at the time; Hikari would soon come to understand entirely.
Close to a month had passed before the curious spirits in the orphanage were taken care of and Hikari had been adopted officially by Yoh. It was with this man, a ‘Shaman’, Hikari was raised. He taught her everything he ever knew about being a Shaman. He also taught her by experience; he traveled a lot, he often told Hikari he had ‘lost something’ and was trying to find it. On these travels they came across demons with intent to kill and do harm and spirits who were beyond help. With Hikari by his side, Yoh showed her how to exercise spirits and demons alike.
By the age of twelve Hikari had learned everything she could from Yoh. She absorbed everything like a sponge. At thirteen she and Yoh moved back to Japan where Yoh purchased an old Inn that they would call home. Friends Yoh had encountered on their travels came to stay with them, eventually together they reopened the Inn as a high class relaxation spa. Hikari kept herself busy by attending school though she hardly paid attention in class, and helping around the Inn.
One day, after coming home from getting groceries a girl from her school who had absolutely no connection to Hikari once so ever, had approached. The girl looked pale and sickly while low ranking demons swarmed around her. Hikari was immediately aware that something was wrong but she didn’t react fast enough. Soon the girl was on top of Hikari, laughing as she took out a knife from her pocket. She had Hikari pinned down with unnatural strength for a human. The girl began to talk about Hikari as if she had known her for her entire life. She even spoke about the fire which Hikari never spoke of to anyone but Yoh. This threw Hikari’s guard off, confused by how she knew these things. When her attention was diverted, Hikari’s classmate forced her palms open and began to cut away. When she was finished, Hikari was left with a perfect five point star in the center of both her palms, raw and bloody. The girl laughed hysterically before sudden screams of anguish broke out of her lungs. In an instant, flames poured from her eyes and mouth, quickly eating away her flesh. It was like the creature from before, only this time it was eating its way from the inside out.
Ever since then, Hikari has kept to herself but has begun to look further into the spiritual world out of curiosity. She intends to figure out why the girl attacked her, giving her the scars that now house Zenki and Kouki, two shikigami spirits. Ultimately though, Hikari wishes to put aside her fear, doubt and hatred and get a career in the music industry since she's extremely talented.
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Status: Alive.
