Sakura Sekibanki

## Sakura

*"I'll make you fear walking around, day or night!"*

- Sakura Sekibanki

## Biography

Sakura Sekibanki is a youkai that became empowered by the Nukekubi, Ghost, and Astral magic side effects and joined the Youkai Revolution against Yakira antics.

## Appearance

Sakura Sekibanki has red hair and red eyes. She wears a blue bow with red trimmings and a red and blue capelet that covers part of her face. She also wears a black and red long sleeved shirt, as well as a dark red skirt and red and black boots.

## Personality

Sakura Sekibanki is described as being slightly, innocent, joyful, calm, and with a cynical view of things, a kind personality. She became aggressive and somewhat more youkai-like than usual when shown hostility towards her, but it seems that she is normally recalcitrant towards both humans and youkai, and she doesn't get involved much with them.

## Etymology

* Her first name *Sakura* (咲良) meaning "cherry blossoms".

* *Sekibanki* (赤蛮奇) is spelled with the characters for "red", "barbarian", and "anomaly".

## Capabilities

This Nukekubi can make her head come apart and is able to shoot laser beams from it while her body focuses in other attacks, as well as summoning additional heads. Sakura is a ghost user with dark magic

## Powers

**Head Flight** - As literally stated, Sakura Sekibanki can detach her head from her body and move it at will, it is quite simply, the power to detach her head from her neck and make it fly. She can create more copies of her head, as well, or extend her neck a great distance.

**Multiplying Heads** - She can create clones of her head, to attack from different places at once. It's unknown if they are actual heads that can think on their own to some extent, or just replicas resembling the original of herself.

**Astral Magic** - She is able to utilize magical power and/or spells related to the astral plane and its energies. She can combine their astral manipulation abilities with physical combat skill. This can range from channeling astral energy to wielding one’s astral form in battle.

**Soul Manipulation** - She can interact with one's soul or the souls of others. She can ranges from being able to project the power of one's soul outward, grasping and ripping the souls of others out of their bodies, outright consuming souls to gain power, among other applications.

**Power Modification** - She can alter, interfere with, or modify other powers. Differing from Power Nullification or Statistics Amplification, Power Modification is able to change the function of an ability in some shape or form, such as turning superhuman strength into superhuman speed.

**Regeneration** - She can regenerate her body from the complete erasure of her body, mind, and soul.

**Fear** - She can inflict a level of "fear" on the target using supernatural means. Depending on the severity of the fear, the user can use this to manipulate the target, incapacitate them or simply drive them insane. The most simple form of Fear Manipulation. This is simply the ability to make the target feel frightened in some form or another. The severity of this can range from frightening them to causing them to deathly insanity.

**Astral Electricity** - Sakura can manipulate upper-atmospheric electricity that exists above the earth's atmosphere. Due to the anti-gravity environment, the electricity takes on unusual form. She manipulate and manifests various phenomena including blue jet, sprites, etc. to use a deadly beams which the damage level is very city level damage, she can destroy a mountain with one shot.

**Ghost Fire Ball** - Due to her being a Nukekubi, she can summon ghost fire which is the color cyan flammable ball. the sizes depend of how big the ectoplasm ghost flames, she makes up this power in her Ghost Fires causing them to be 2x more powerful when exploding, now the cyan color ghost fire ball that would normally take out a city block, the purple flame that could take out a quarter of a city. She can create, shape and manipulate acid ghost fire, a substance with the properties, or at least inflicts damage like, both acid and fire simultaneously. Using and manipulating acidic fire will make the victims suffer devastatingly, causing more intense burning, causticity, and enhanced fumes with fiery effects, automatically being fatal, especially when the fumes are breathed in.

**Aura** - When activated, this type of aura creates a powerful shock wave of energy around Sakura, it also includes various elemental aura.

**Phantom Ray** - Sakura can release a blast of purple ecto-energy from her hands, or her eyes from her cloned heads for greater advantage against her enemies. These rays can range in power from simply knocking back a person to severely injuring or destroying an enemy. The phantom ray is capable of melting abilities and force ghosts out of people they are overshadowing.

**Stealth Expert** - Sakura has shown to be capable of vanishing without leaving a single trace, as Turbo and Cory didn’t even feel her presence after leaving.

**Bullet Hell** - She can summon a stream of endless waves (ranging from hundreds to thousands to millions) of objects like blades, bullets, energy blasts, etc., around their target to bombard them from all sides with no hope of escape. Users most likely have a complex strategy and pattern to confuse their opponent and limit their movement.

***- More TBA -***

## Relations

**Cory Carden** - TBA

**Turbo 'Drift' Gibson** - TBA

**Yumi Konpaku** - TBA

**Yuki Snow** - TBA

## Trivia/Facts

* In folklore, nukekubi are said to have symbols on their neck where the head detaches, revealing their identity - which may explain Sakura's choice to wear a capelet to cover her neck.
* There has been some confusion whether she is a Nukekubi or Rokurokubi. Even though her detaching-head ability belongs to Nukekubi, but Sakura is a Nukekubi. type youkai she truly is.