Yakunyan

== Player ==
The player behind Yakunyan is Markenergie.
Information about him can be found on his separate Wiki page.
== Personality ==
Yakunyan is a kind hearted familiar, often caring for those outside of the person / group she serves. She has a strong sense of justice and will act based on those, if the situation becomes dire, and can't rely on her master.
Outside of all things, even around a master she'll be quite timid and shy, and often stay silent, in larger open spaces.
== Appearance ==
Yakunyan appears as a short, young adult in a fancy, yet somewhat alluring chinese dress. She has short brown dark-purple hair and distinct horns in the shape of the tips of katana blades.
She can occasionally be seen wearing charms in the form of paper or a bell charms. These are purely cosmetic, she carries these for when she goes to a shrine in the mountains.
Although hidden outside in the public, Yakunyan as a Nekomata has 2 tails, she doesn't often show these off, unless she is near her master(s) or she trusts the person she shows them to.
=== Body of Blades ===
Yakunyan's physical body is composed of metallic materials when she became a Nekomata, this is thought to be linked to her strong affiliation to weapons through her life prior to becoming a Nekomata.
Her blood has changed to a pure black substance which seems to form spikes once out in the open air. Even how her body deals with wounds has changed abruptly, instead of scars, long shards of weapons start sprouting from her body, in most cases it resembles the tip of a katana.
Her old wounds were caused by a weapon of unknown demonic origin from the period she was brutally tortured for 200 years~. The lingering energy makes her unable to close the wounds, hence the blades are always there. She is sometimes seen retracting the blades into her body when she goes to hug someone, but this takes a lot of energy for her to maintain.
==== Metals ====
Her body is made up of several different types of metal, causing it to be extremely tough to just cut and punch. The metals found in Yakunyan's body, through the scan Hybris performed are:
* Bones: Mithril
* "Flesh": Adamantine
* Blood: Ferro-Fluid (Iron Oxide) > Her blood looks like a black thick substance and feels oily to the touch. Upon Yakunyan's own power she can control the blood to spike and lunge towards enemies.
A magnet causes the same effect, but only if it is outside of her body. This is believed due to metal her body is to be stronger.
* Nerves: Nickel
== Yakunyan - History and Origin ==
Yakunyan originated from being a house cat in a large mansion. After living for 14 years as a normal domestic house cat, she started to grow larger and larger with longer tails over her last year. After 6 months have passed she her tail started to split into 2 identical tails.
Now due to the conditions of her life, she turned into a nekomata, but not like the ones from the ordinary folktales. She doesn't despite humans to the point where she wants to slaughter them. This is from the fact she was raised and adored in her first household. She is wary of humans, but she admires them.
The master of her first household was familiar with the Bakeneko and Nekomata and thought teaching Yakunyan a right sense of judgement and understanding with humanity and other living things, he could teach her the right way into her new life.
Over the next 5 years under the teaching of her master, Yakunyan learned how to fully turn into a humanoid disguise and hide her tails. She learned from her master also the way of the sword, hence she carries a Daishõ pair. Her master taught her many skills regarding swords and weapons due to Yakunyan's special ability.
Unlike normal nekomata she isn't able to conjure any necromantic powers to raise the dead, nor fire. Her body has formed very differently, this is believed due to her very different living conditions. She was raised around swordsman and a very strict culture revolving around.
Sadly the 2 years following, her master started getting sick and passed away shortly after falling sick. To her misfortune the rest of the family were not capable of forming a contract with her. This was due to the fact that the rest of the family showed slight fear and distrust in her. This caused her to roam around the land, to ultimately find a new owner.
=== Following Years ===
Yakunyan has roamed the land several times, and has been a servant / familiar to many masters and household. Most of these were fine and peaceful. She would help out every master she served, however she could and was in her own reason and limits. For the first 124 odd years or so she did this, she ended up with a landlord..
This landlord was kind in the beginning and thus Yakunyan entered the contract with him rather quickly. All was well for the first couple of months, but things quickly turned around rather dark. The landlord was well aware of the normal power Bakeneko and Nekomata are supposed to possess. He was angered he couldn't use hers, as he wanted to use her as a tool to rule the land and beyond the horizon of his own land. After multiple conflicts, the landlord decided to take her into a deep dungeon housing under the main castle.
In this dungeon, she was tortured and had her powers sealed to the point where she wasn't able to escape or do anything about it. Yakunyan sustained her own belief and that of her first owner to uphold her own sanity.
After over 5 years of going through this torture, eventually the landlord came down with a demonic imbued weapon. Using this blade he made several cut and stab wounds into her body, inflicting demonic energy to seep into her body. This continued for over 200 years. Due the evil aspect from the energy, her more dorment natural instinct started to kick in over the years. This caused blades to start erupting from her body in a form of defense, these blades were abnormally stronger than normal metal.
The wounds the demonic imbued weapon inflicted on Yakunyan became incurable for herself, as she has no way to dispel demonic energy.
=== The Breaking Point ===
After she started to slowly manifest these abnormal shards, even some of her dorment power started to awaken. With one flash a wave of crimson flames got sent out, destroying all the seals and charms in the room and burning the current guards that were in her cell.
After she freed herself, she in anger ran up the stairs towards the landlord. Every guard that was in her way got put to sleep by the green fiery gaze in her eyes, making them faint. She was in anger, not due to the torture she sustained, or the slight demonic nature she received through her wounds, but rather what she heard the discussions and rumors that was going around the guards.
Yakunyan was always harshly against any sort of violence involving the general public. Word slipped through that the landlord was getting his army ready to invade and pillage the smaller defenseless towns around.
She bashed and burned through the main door connecting the dungeon to the main building, and rushed into the throne room. What her eyes full of primal evil hate, she jumped onto the landlord, her master and bit of the skin with the mark bearing the contract. Doing this left her side to be unguarded and the landlord stabbed her with the relic, severely wounding her. In this moment Yakunyan snatched from the landlord's body a shard similar to the ones that were sprouting from her.
After they both backed away, Yakunyan chanted several words to which afterwards the shard in her hand self-destructed, the contract fully broke and the link shattered.
=== Last Effort ===
After the feud with her previous owner, Yakunyan was wanting to kill the landlord, but she abided by all her old masters words and spouted with a mouth full of metallic looking blood:
After spouting that, she ran off from the place with her fatal wounds. As she ran by the guards she retracted her flames which weren't harming them but rather there to scare them.
After she hid deep inside the forest, the effects of a broken contract already started to kick in quickly. The moment she deemed safe, she estimated she could go on this energy for 3 months without fading away. This was the longest time she took to make a previous contract.
However this was when she was in a perfect state, and left in a peaceful manner. This time she had dangerous wounds and power that was slowly leaking out of her body. She used up 2 months worth of her energy to heal her fatal wounds as best as she could, but she was still heavily wounded all together.
From stories from guards and other humans around the landlord, there was a nearby portal to a special city. This city supposedly had several public places.
== RP ==
=== Chapter 1: The Weakened Yõkai ===
==== The Unknown ====
Not knowing what a busy, modern city would be like. She set off as quickly as she could with her 2-3 weeks left. Conveniently she arrived at a date a place The Purple Lotus opened.
This is the first place she arrived and as she went around there she already felt her exhaustion starting to cause heavy impacts on her body. She was moving slowly and sluggish around and eventually took rest in the upper room and couch as she started to feel heavy.
After she sat to rest for a few minutes, 2 others joined in, 1 being with a divine smelling aura around her and a person called Satchi. They were showing concerns about the swords fragments sticking out of Yakunyan, which she pushed of it being a natural thing. The one next to Satchi went to head downstairs again, but Satchi started asking a few questions regarding to what Yakunyan is.
Yakunyan felt a bit at ease with Satchi and decided to say that she was a familiar and came to the city in search of a master. After a bit more talking she revealed that she would have 2-3 weeks to make a new contract before she would perish.
Satchi offered Yakunyan a proposal, for her to keep searching around more around the Purple Lotus and the city, see if she can find an appropriate master herself. However if she didn't find anyone, to return to them in a week's time for help from Satchi or possibly offering to become her master. Yakunyan sparked up immensely upon hearing this.
After showing gratitude Yakunyan set off to search and ask around more outside of the casino and left the Purple Lotus.
==== A Spark of Hope ====
After a, what seemed 2 days, Yakunyan returned to the casino in 2 hours. Exhausted from the walking as her power and pain were getting worse by the hour from how she felt. In the casino Yakunyan again saw Satchi, who pulled her to the side. They started to ask more about her. What happened? What are the consequences of the contract. Yakunyan again felt a bit of a trust connection starting to build. Again she told them more of what happened, but not in full detail.
Yakunyan to her surprise got told by Satchi, they would lessen the time she would wait out of concerns, lessening the time to only having to wait 2-3 days. This kinda baffled her, and she didn't let out to much of an emotion as she was happy and crying inside. All the torture in the past years kinda broke her direction for kindness, she didn't know what to do with it.
After the talk, they both left back again to the central area and Yakunyan ended up taking her leave. Satchi, who was checking her out from the armband and items she turned in, gave Yakunyan money to stay in a hotel room, rather than outside on the street as she had no place to stay. She gratefully and again baffled, broken as she didn't know how to react accepted the money and walked out.
Yakunyan roamed around the city a bit more after leaving the hotel, but despite the money Satchi gave her, she didn't go to a hotel. She didn't deem herself the permission and self worth, and she stayed over night on a secure location on the outskirts of the city. Sadly her wounds from the day prior before coming to the city haven't healed properly, and started to open up again. This caused her to need to consume more of her being over time to stay alive and walking.
==== A Dire State ====
The next day, Yakunyan returned back to the casino where she was greeted by Satchi and a few new faces. She was in an even worse state than before, her ability to walk was like day and night compared to the day before. She told him about how she didn't go to an apartment, and that she felt bad for receiving money as a familiar. She hid the fact that she never got experience with money, which was another reason she didn't go to a hotel.
After talking and assessing Yakunyan's, or Yõko's that Satchi called her, health situation, He called over Mhai, The manager of the Purple Lotus and discussed the matter at hand. Mhai said Yakunyan shouldn't be left alone for long and gave Satchi the sign it would be alright to take her in under servitude. After a bit more chatter, Yakunyan first wondered more around the Purple Lotus.
A few hours after hanging out and talking with the Purple Lotus, she started to feel extremely faint, and ended up collapsing against the wall in an uncrowded area. After an hour or so Satchi came searching for her, this was due to the fact that his significant other, White was in the casino, and was aware of the situation in little detail. They were reminded by A.N.I. about it due to them knowing Yakunyan was still around in the lobby, and that she had retreated in a corner.
==== Rejuvenated Life ====
Satchi picked her up and brought her to the room where White and A.N.I. sat. This is where White checked her out as she was still passed out from her near depleted state. After discussing a bit with Satchi, she slowly started to awaken. Still in a dazed state, they started asking about the capabilities of her power, and the details of the contract. To demonstrate a bit of her power that she was able to manage, she turned her right arm into a blade, before quickly retracting it again to preserve power. Only this already took hours of her life.
After a bit more discussion, Satchi decided to accept the contract after White gave their acceptance. She took a blade fragment that was sticking out and gave it to Satchi , on which inscriptions started to form about the terms of the contract.
To accept and initiate the contract, she told Satchi to take the inscripted blade-shard and jab it into their body while putting thrust into Yakunyan. Upon contact with the skin, the blade disintegrated into his skin, indicating Satchi trusted Yakunyan. Once the blade-shard was fully immersed into the skin, the contract was complete, and Yakunyan started to regenerate her energy slowly but surely. After which she first rested up more to focus on restoring her ability to walk normally. This shard remains within Satchi body, in his shoulder.
=== Chapter 2: A New Life ===
==== A new Start ====
Shortly after the contract was formed, Satchi and White left to go after A.N.I. who had gone back to their place for unknown reasons, and were concerned. After Yakunyan rested up slightly, they went ahead and request a summon from her new master and joined in too.
After getting summoned by Satchi into A.N.I.'s place, White dragged her to the side. They had an extensive conversation of what had happened, and what she was possibly capable off. After talking and going back and forth for a bit, Yakunyan was more comforted and felt less like a stranger after being able to properly talk with them, rather than be in a situation where death was knocking on the door. They all left to the family house afterwards to sit back and relax afterwards, as the following morning the Casino would open its doors again.
==== First day at the Purple Lotus ====
Today Yakunyan was doing significantly better, her huge wound closed up again, and she was able to walk around normally again to a huge extent. Today she decided to follow Satchi, who left earlier, to the Casino. She wanted to help him out where possible and it seems Satchi had something similar in mind.
Upon entering, Mhai quickly snatched in prior discussion Yakunyan to the bar area, and gave her a rundown of how the place is setup. After the introduction Yakunyan assisted mostly throughout the shift with the bar and occasionally handling the weapon depot section, as she wanted to assist as much as she could. Later in her shift, White also joined the Casino, and Yakunyan started hanging out a bit with her along the evening.
==== Another Master and Secondary Contract ====
Later in the day, Yakunyan ended up talking more with White and it lead to the point of where Yakunyan also offered her the contract she gave to Satchi . After all her contract states it doesn't bind her to someone, but rather establishes a link that allows her to stay connected to the world of the living. The more people she contracts with the faster she can regenerate her wounds. The contract does state 1 fact, the other contractors must be close to the main contract which in her case is Satchi.
Note: This means there is a similar blade-shard in White's body just like how it is with Satchi.
After White gracefully accepted the contract, Yakunyan sparked up a lot. She had a bit of a wish to contract with her instead of Satchi, this was because she is afraid she will end up burdening Satchi by having 2 familiars. Following this Yakunyan presented White something she hasn't shown anyone outside of her first ever master. She conjured her Katana, and revealed the inscription that were concealed on the blade. She explained there is a secondary contract on her as a familiar.
She quickly hid her Katana again, but stated to White, she is currently the one she trusts the most next to Satchi but, sees her as the only potential person at the moment she wishes to offer the second contract to. She further explained she already had her go through a trail earlier, by forming a part of her arm into a hilt and guard directly into White's hand grip. Yakunyan determined through this, she is compatible with her.
==== A.. Cat? ====
After the shift was over, White, Satchi and Yakunyan moved over back to A.N.I.'s place. She was already quite exhausted from her first working day, and was only really leaning up against White. She ended up turning into her Cat Form and rested in the hands of White. She was quite surprised to find out she was surprisingly heavy, after all her body is made of metal. After a while White carrying the cat-formed Yakunyan, walked back to where Satchi and A.N.I.. As they are walking back Yakunyan softly whispers to White "Passed the second trail". This was another test to make sure they could ultimately carry her.
After talking and messing a bit around they ultimately all left back to the house.
=== Chapter 3: Moving on and Healing ===
==== Remembrance of pain and acceptance ====
As Yakunyan was starting to settle in her new life, she kept her roles up par while being Satchi's and White's familiar. Attending to the house they were living and helping out with chores. The week quickly turned around back to Thursday. On Thursday it was time to go back to the Purple Lotus, and helping there with bar tending.
As the shift came to a normal end, Satchi, White and Alibi were considering going on an adventure, as Alibi was way to over energetic to normally return to the house. So all four of them left of to a random place.
As they arrived in a seemingly seaside city, Yakunyan started to get hazy and fuzzy, as she knew this place, but she didn't understand why. As the four traveled along the main street, Yakunyan started remembering more and more about the place, getting uneasier by the moment. After the others reached the end of the street, she had gone back to the beginning. As the others returned, looking for her, they saw her staring while frozen to a building that had bar inside.
As White tried communicating with her, and grabbing her by the shoulders, she suddenly snapped back to reality. As she was still in terror from her thoughts, she slowly explained as to what this place was: The place her previous owner brought her to for public torture so others could also inflict harm on her. After she snapped back and cleared her mind up a bit, Yakunyan reflected on herself and said that she finally moved on with her new masters. Her new family.
==== A Trip to never Forget ====
As they cleared from the town, they left to go to another place. A place that was close to Satchi's past. As it was a giant forest area, we went exploring, except for Satchi as he went to a different place, where we would eventually meet up. So along with Alibi, White showed them around the place, and some of the features that were present. The vast beaches that were around, to the forests and hills. After it quickly turned night time, they started heading to the place Satchi was located at. A valley that overlooked a gorgeous overhanging cliff with a castle at the top.
After a while of talking and catching up, they started to head back the casino as both Alibi and Yakunyan were exhausted from the trip. After talking a bit more there, they ended up heading home.
==== Catnip..? ====
After resting up plenty, Yakunyan first headed alone to the casino to help out the staff there with Bartending. Meeting new staff members and learning more about the place the shift went pretty normal as usual, it was a more busy day then Yakunyan was used to though.
After a while White came into the casino as well, casually chatting with everyone there, and ultimately asking Yakunyan how she was doing. Now after a few moments, White went to the back where the beverages were located. They noticed a bottle of Catnip from the NekoNight partners. As she was reading the label, they questioned if it tasted like catnip. Yakunyan hearing this slowly approached, sniffing out and confirmed there indeed was catnip in the bottle. As they wanted to ask Mhai something about the drink, Yakunyan swiftly snatched the bottle from White and ran away throughout the whole casino.
As they ran for a bit trying to hide, they sat down behind the piano and downed the whole bottle. White just being a mere moment to late, now was faced with a drunk and stoned Yakunyan. After taking the bottle from her and picking her up, White went back to bar where Mhai was. After stating Yakunyan drank the bottle, Mhai checked her and estimated the effects would last about 10 minutes or so.
White took her upstairs to rest it out, as Yakunyan was having the best time of her life. Slowly as others joined, Alibi came in with another bottle of Catnip. Running directly towards Yakunyan they were trying to feed her more. Getting stopped by both Mhai, White and a few bystanders. The rest of the night was a bit hazy..
==== Thieves and a Shock ====
After returning to the home, Yakunyan was relaxing and still coming by from the high that happened at the casino. After a couple of hours Satchi returned home as well, he mentioned going to a place to meet up with Corowna. Yakunyan asked if she could follow and thus did so. After going through a portal with Satchi, they both arrived in a what seemed to be sewer like space, here Corowna and Koda were set in the central area. Both Yakunyan and Satchi walked up to them and took place in the seats there.
As Satchi and Corowna were having a chat, Corowna was curious to something about Yakunyan. She pulled out a magnet, and asked "You are made of metal right? What happens if I let go of this?" Yakunyan answered she didn't know honestly, as no one ever did such a thing. Upon hearing this Corowna let go of the magnet, causing it to snap to Yakunyan's head. Upon contact this instantly caused Yakunyan to let out an agonizing scream, and went into a shock. Upon witnessing the sight both Corowna and Satchi rushed over to remove the magnet, halting the episode, but she was still in a somewhat in a dazed state. After this event, it was all a bit unclear what happened for Yakunyan, all she remembers is going home with Satchi.
==== The healing Ritual ====
After resting up at the house, Yakunyan left for the casino, later than usual and started her shift in there. It was quite a busy evening as per usual, but quieted down eventually and it equaled out. After a while Yakunyan got a summons from her other master, White. After quickly letting Satchi know, who was talking with Hybris, she took her leave.
Upon answering of the summons, Yakunyan was teleported to White who was set in the lower parts of the house.. This was in one of the darkest parts of the cellar, the room was pitch black, and only had a red dim lit candle in the middle of the room. White who was sat on the opposite side of the candle, started to explain the steps of the ritual.
After hearing the steps, Yakunyan calmly focused within herself and the aura of White. Feeling the demonic presence in the aura of White, she then told Yakunyan to focus on the similar energy within her wounds. As she focused and found the lingering demonic energy within the wounds, White said to keep focusing on that energy, as they were slowly starting to pool the energy from Yakunyan to herself. Slowly as the energy started to leave her body, it fused with the aura of White. Ultimately after a while, all the energy from her wounds were pulled out, and slowly the blades started to fall out, indicating it was successful.
After a small chat with White, they both left to the living part of the house, as Yakunyan now had to recover and heal up accordingly, she regained the control to heal the wounds, but it would take a moment to completely heal up all of the wounds.
==== Turning a new Leaf ====
After resting for the rest of the day, Yakunyan followed along accordingly with her shift at the Purple Lotus. She was being in very high spirits as she now knew, she could fully leave her past behind.
=== Chapter 4: Strange Signs ===
==== Visions ====
After being healed, Yakunyan took it upon herself to keep herself dedicated to the household and the Casino. As she was thrilled she finally moved on, and got a new family. Everyone also seeing the now healed Yakunyan was quite surprised, as it was a very different sight from her usual appearances with dozens of ominous blades sticking out.
Although everything was fine body wise with Yakunyan, she now started seeing slight visions from an unknown place, which oddly felt like home.. She kept secret of these visions for the time being as she rather kept busy tending to her activities.
==== Neko.. Nights? ====
Being exhausted one day, Yakunyan was about to set off to work, but noticed Satchi was someplace elsewhere. Slightly curious if something had happened, she set off to head towards Satchi and arrived at a seemingly nightclub called Neko Nights. Upon entering the establishment, she noticed several familiar faces from colleagues at the Casino.
After being informed Neko Nights had asked for support of the Purple Lotus to help out that evening, Yakunyan was relieved it wasn't anything worse. Meeting up with everyone there including Satchi, Hybris and Alibi, Yakunyan just went around following Satchi for a bit, asking more about why they were here. After chatting for a bit she followed Satchi to the upstairs area with another bar and pool.
===== Corowna's Apology =====
A bit in shock as she walked in as she saw Corowna standing there. Jokingly Yakunyan even said "You aren't gonna put a magnet on my head again right". Corowna fending it off mentioning she had a show of apology for Yakunyan, and asked if she would be wanting to follow her to the other room. Yakunyan hesitantly followed her to the room next door.
Corowna first apologized to Yakunyan and then presented her a bag, saying there were some clothes in it for the Casino, noticing Yakunyan didn't have any more normal attire to wear. Yakunyan feeling it was a somewhat genuine apology, accepted it and took the clothes out of the bag and decided to wear them to show them off.
After getting overreactions from Satchi, Yakunyan temporarily left with Alibi, as they had drank to much and needed to be escorted home. Coming back to the establishment afterwards, it was only Satchi and Hybris left, who were also both ready to leave. Yakunyan followed Satchi back to the casino and called it the night after doing small business there.
==== Strange Place, Strange Visions ====
After some days had passed, and Yakunyan was passively working around the house and the casino, she noticeably started to change a bit. The visions she already had rarely, were now daily and clearer than before. During a shift, she got a pretty strong one, causing her to retreat out of the casino and go this place in the visions, as she knew where it was. Strangely if it was her home.
Upon quickly traveling to the entrance, by a method she didn't know she had and couldn't remember how to, she stood in front of a waterfall. After seemingly passing through the waterfall, the air pacified around her. As she emerged from a lake, she walked up to the shrine that was lying ahead, with each step gaining more memories of familiarity to the place. After reaching the top of the place, she manifested into her spirit form gaining a cloak and bag of charms on her side. From the moment she turned into her spirit form, both Satchi and White could feel the shard in their body that was settled from the first contract, pulsate.
Slowly as a few minutes passed, a shock can be felt from the shard: It feels like you see a faint image of a shrine.
By the attire, as that hadn't changed for them, they could tell it was from Yakunyan's perspective.
The shock retreats and they get pushed back to their own eyes, when shortly after the shock reoccurs: This time it feels as if you are being watched by something warm, something loving.
After which it gets silent again for a few minutes. After 5 minutes had passed the pulsing is starting again but picking up in volume.
The volume gets louder to a point, where it suddenly switches, and a voice can be heard from the past: You hear yourself, and the voice of the others that have been around Yakunyan at the same time.
Slowly the pulsing is starting to fade, and a string of energy can be noticed from Satchi and White from the spot of their body where the shard was embedded, and it slowly leads beyond their sight..
Note: Following these events, Yakunyan is able to very slightly know what Satchi and White are up to and where they are located. This is enforced in case of grave situations.
==== A Maiden in the Mountains ====
After returning to her senses, Yakunyan had undergone a transformation. Not significantly luckily, her clothing changed to that of a shrine maiden, her hair turned into her natural color as a nekomata and her 2 tails and cat ears sprung out. Since she had no awareness yet of where she actually was, she decided to first check the shrine out that unnaturally felt like home.
Upon inspecting the shrine, she noticed all over the place were markings and notes in an odd language, which Yakunyan was able to read. All over the place there were stories about Yakunyan's family, oddly enough just like the shrine itself, all the notes felt oddly as if she already knew the stories. Most stories are about family history, town folk that came to the shrine, certain family events. Nothing was much of interest but there was 1 interesting story.
This story mentioned a legend, written by commoners and other nekomata alike briefly mentioning nekomata with more than 2 tails, and slight scratched out in runic language the word "Meikai" can be read after a completely scratched out name. Seeing this as folklore, Yakunyan kinda shrugged it off and continued towards the odd lake at the end of the shrine. Walking slowly into the water, Yakunyan ended up back in the normal world and just on the outskirts of the city.
Upon returning to the casino, a thing was still a bit off. Even though she thought she changed back into her normal clothes, she was still in a spectral form and wearing the shrine clothes.
=== Chapter 5: The Wielder of Yakunyan ===
==== The heated Blade ====
As a week or 2-3 had passed, and several events had happened in the meantime revolving around the Casino. Yakunyan had to bail out more and more often, as she had the feel she had to return to the shrine and do certain tasks. Here she mostly practiced her charm writing and infusing of said charms.
One day while Yakunyan was in the Casino working a normal shift with fellow employees, she had to bail out again. But this time left on a weird note. White who was present in the casino with A.N.I. suddenly felt the blade-shard from the contract she made Yakunyan flare up in heat. Noticing this and being made aware Yakunyan was seen running out of the casino, White tried to sense where she was. Upon sensing, she was able to see and locate Yakunyan instantly due the link that got established a few weeks prior.
==== The Truth of Events ====
After White and A.N.I teleported to the shrine, they were met with a beautiful sight of the shrine, and slowly made their way to the central part where Yakunyan was settled. After reaching Yakunyan, it was clear she was different, both being in her spirit form and personality-wise also acting apart from her usual self. White asked her if she was alright, and what was going on with the shard, which Yakunyan brought up the explanation she gave to her a while back, about the second contract. Ultimately leading about informing White that she was ready to engage into the contract. After agreeing to spar as they were discussing of White wanting to see her strength, A.N.I decided to digitize and informed Black Fang of what was going to go down, as A.N.I thought she may be interested to see this fight happen. Shortly after A.N.I was digitized, someone showed up in the shrine and it was no one other than Black Fang.
==== The Clash of Swords ====
Moments later Yakunyan jumped down towards the middle section of the shrine and formed a designed sword she made specially for White. Manifesting this took a lot of her virtue as both White and Black Fang could see Yakunyan's rib cage that was now exposed. Yakunyan said this was as the she had to give out the sword from her own being, and rather than losing an arm, her waist was less important than any other part of her body. Walking off a bit further from White, she formed another set of weapons, which were her own personal Daishõ pair, soon after the clash would start.
After exchanging several blows, Black Fang started to somewhat interfere. They were making comments towards White who got seemingly distracted by it, Yakunyan being about agility and harshly being learned to not lose concentration took these opportunities, charging and piercing White's chest. This fight continued like it for a while.
After it hearing comments from Black Fang mentioning as to why White was holding back, Yakunyan decided she should start using her spiritual power and agility. Fiercely becoming more sadistic in her attacks and charges, Yakunyan wanted to push White to also use her extend of power, which she did.
Continuing the fight for a while, White ultimately cornered Yakunyan who ended up being at the end of her virtue and couldn't move much more for much longer, she ended up forfeiting the fight before she would get permanent side effects.
After retrieving back the sword from White and absorbing it back into her body, Yakunyan kept laying down for a while as she was still gathering back her strength after using certain abilities
==== The Judgement ====
As White was waiting on Yakunyan to come back on her feet, Black Fang also walked over and discussed what they saw in the fight. Discussing how Yakunyan was one of the more prominent fighters she had seen among those who she trained, mostly directing at how Yakunyan took opportunity of every moment she was given. Ultimately giving her judgement to White about, if she were to want someone alongside her on the battlefield, she would gladly have Yakunyan with her, and that she accepted her to be a familiar of White.
==== The Ceremony of Binding ====
Hearing Black Fang's judgement, White was more set on taking Yakunyan as her familiar. She asked Yakunyan, who by now was already back on her feet, what they had to do. Yakunyan let them both back to the central part of the shrine, and seemingly went mind blank. A soothing energy started to emit from her body and the katana she held before was starting to form again, but this time with a lot of runes and a lot brighter. She handed the katana to White and Yakunyan proceeded to tap the center of White's chest. After tapping her chest, a seemingly small red orb flew out White's body and playfully moved around in front of her.
Yakunyan explained this represents a small portion of White's soul, the portion she would be bound to. Explaining further that White would have to trust the blade into the soul projection. After fully pushing it within the orb, it flew back into White's body and an orange energy could be seen flowing from White's chest to her wrist. The energy manifested as an orange chain that flowed out of White's palm. This chain started quickly crawling up to Yakunyan's neck where it briefly seemed to form a collar, which upon completing all the energy dissipated and left Yakunyan to kneel down. She started reciting the inscriptions of the blade and by that the binding was done.
Yakunyan is from this moment on soul bound to White. After the whole ceremony, Yakunyan re-formed as the blade she had given White in the battle, seemingly without it costing it a part of her own body. Still being somewhat exhausted, Yakunyan decided to rest withing White's soul and stayed here till they were back at home.
== Forms and Powers ==
WORK IN PROGRESS
Yakunyan is a Nekomata familiar, she has several forms that influence the power she can use. Due the strange conditions she was raised in, her body reconstructed in a metallic way upon transcending to a Nekomata.
Yakunyan has 4 states she can be in, all feature different strengths and weaknesses.
# Cat Form
# Humanoid Form
# Spiritual Form
=== Cat Form ===
This form refers to her house cat form, in this form she becomes a small cat humanoid with more of a cat-like appearance. Her tails, paws and fur become a bit more visible in this form. Despite her shrinking down, her weight remains the same. In this form her sight and hearing is improved beyond her already good hearing in her normal form. Due to her compressed size, it is speculated she is able to conjure weapons without a noticeable effect on the body. 
=== Humanoid Form ===
This is the form Yakunyan is mostly seen in. Both seen with and without cat features like her tails and ears. In this form she gains a bit more control when it comes to manipulating her blood and body as a whole, but can be easily seen to physically lose her flesh as she is using her power, and thus revealing her weak parts 
=== Spiritual Form ===
This often refers to Yakunyan's state when she is within White's soul, spiritually able to talk to those close around. Another interpretation is Yakunyan contacting those who hold a fragment, or allowing those with a fragment and the trust to see through Yakunyan's eyes.
=== Powers ===
This refers to the general arsenal Yakunyan has access to.
# Weapon Creation: Her body is composed primarily of metal. Even her blood is a metallic like substance that forms as spikes once spilled. Due to this she is able to extend from her body blades and weapons she is familiar with. These weapons are noted to be a lot stronger than a traditionally forged weapon. She has also shown she can turn her own body parts into a weapon.
# Weapon Transformation: Yakunyan is able to fully transform her own being into a weapon depending on the relationship and respect for their master. Further to execute such feats a second level contract is required. She could theoretically morph into any weapon of choosing, but depending on her knowledge it may take time and more power to sustain.
# Weapon Master: Due to the training she underwent, Yakunyan is a proficient fighter with hand to hand combat and some martial arts weapons. These weapons include: pole-arms, katana's, and broadswords. Her favorite setup is using a Daishõ pair.
# Enhanced Endurance: Due to how her body is built, she is resistant to the most generic weapons. Punching her feels like you are punching a metal pole, due to her body composure. Endurance gets extremely reduced without a contract.
# Fire Manipulation: In this form Yakunyan gains the ability to conjure ghostly fire that she can send out in all kinds of ways. Her flames often seem to appear in 3 different types of colors: A bright orange/red, green/lime and light-/dark blue. The difference between these flames is unknown.
=== Weaknesses ===
# Magnetism: Yakunyan's body being fully composed out of different metals causes her to attract magnets if she has even the slightest static / electric charge.
Putting the magnet on a part of her body, causes that part to go limb. Example: Putting a magnet on her right shoulder, causes her whole right arm to go limb.
Putting a magnet on her head, causes her to go in to an epileptic shock.
== Contracts ==
Going to rework this!
As a Familiar, Yakunyan is extremely reliant on serving under a person or family. Without a contract her connection that keeps her connected to the world of the living starts fading slowly over 3 months. This time is severely cut if Yakunyan uses her abilities or is severely injured. This is as she is using her powers to keep herself from dying of the wounds, causing intense strain on her body and mind.
Due to her abilities and uniqueness, her first master who was raising her and guiding her through the stages of growing as a Nekomata, manipulated the way her contract worked and split it into two separate ones.
=== First Contract ===
The first contract is a binding contract, that binds Yakunyan's existence to a person / family. This contract that binds her to the living world through her master(s) entity. Due to the nature of this contract it doesn't put strain on the host outside of possible emotional hardship that Yakunyan experiences, like any living creature. With this, the contract also keeps her entity bound to the living world, this means that even if she dies as a familiar, her entity will roam around the family and slowly start to regenerate.
Because the specialty of this contract, the contract can be shared and signed by multiple people. The only restriction is, is that the other contract holders are close to the original contract holder.
To initiate the contract ceremony, Yakunyan sheds out a shard of a blade from her body. On this shard inscriptions and markings appear stating the binding. All the hosts has to do is accept the shard into their body. This is achieved by stabbing them self with the shard while putting trust in Yakunyan. Upon impact with the body, if the trust is there, the blade simply phases into the body and the contract gets completed.
This contract is very flexible and can be easily broken by a number of ways:
# Mutual agreement: Either on a good or bad note, the contract can be broken.
# Forced break: If one of the parties disagrees with one another, the contract can be broken in a forceful way. Yakunyan can take out the shard again of the contractee, and shatter it.
# Death: If all the contract holders pass away, the contract will be broken. Note: if there are multiple contract holders and only the main one dies, the main contract shifts over to the second person who engaged in the contract.
=== Second Contract ===
The secondary contract is what is expected off a familiar, a soul-binding contract. This contract would bind Yakunyan's entity to whoever signs the contract to their soul. This strong link allows power to flow both directions. Due to this Yakunyan is able to use her true abilities with more power.
Outside of her Nekomata abilities becoming stronger, her abilities with Weapon Creation and Transformation are greatly boosted in combination with her master. She is now able to form as a complete blade by linking and resonating her soul with that of her master. The shape of the blade is decided by Yakunyan, but requires a strong connection to the weapon.
The second ceremony is similar to the first one, Yakunyan will summon her Daishõ Katana. On the blade a lot of inscriptions start to appear, and only the one binding with her is able to read them. Upon inspecting the inscriptions it reads:
Just as the first contract, the Katana requires to be stabbed into something, but not the body of the host. After both sides have shown their trust, Yakunyan will touch the contractor's chest and a bright red orb can be seen leaving the body. This is a reflection of the soul, not the actual soul. As this is a soul binding contract, the katana needs to be stabbed into the orb, binding it to soul of the contractee. After doing so Yakunyan will rephrase the inscriptions and the pledge will be complete. The orb will retract back into the body and from there on Yakunyan is bound to
Unlike the first contract, this binding can't be easily broken.
== Trivia ==
* Despite her appearance, she is surprisingly old.
* Given her height, she is extremely heavy, weighing around 500lbs / 227kg
** It is speculated, her contract changes her weight for her master(s) to be under 50lbs / 22.7kg. Hence only Satchi and White are able to carry her with ease.
** Her weight can also drastically change depending on how tall she is.
* The "Nyan" in her name is a word play as she is nekomata / cat yõkai.
* The first name derives from the word Yakunan (厄難). This words means "Evil, Calamity, Misfortune", which is often linked to a Nekomata.
* Her surname is Meikai (冥界). This word means "The Nether World, Realm of the Dead", which is appropriate as she is a spiritual entity.
* Despite having a last name, she doesn't reveal this name outside of her own masters and wielder. She prefers taking on the surname of her master
With this avatar I attached random information to have something to talk about at PL:
* Is a nekomata.
* A familiar with a broken contract.
* Injured by a demonic-natured relic.
* Will die within 2 IRL weeks due to injuries if left untreated / getting a new owner.
After the interactions I had within the PL, I took a small 2 hour break and completely written Yakunyan's backstory. I did revise it at a later date though, but no mayor changes.
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