E Tsukiha

**E ("Eleanor") Tsukiha** is a legendary Kitsune and member of the S.M.I.T.E. sub-group SLAY.

## History

E is not a human; she is actually a Kitsune, a Japanese fox spirit from the Land of Shinwa, a district in Japan and home of the Yokai. She was a powerful kitsune due to her number of nine tails and lived a peaceful existence being both venerated and feared by her fellow Yokai. One day however, she encountered a trans-dimensional portal being conducted by the S.M.I.T.E. scientists and was sucked in from her location in Shinwa to their testing facility parallel in Japan. Enraged, she attacked the members until she was rendered unconscious by Sayoko Takudome. Afterwards, the kitsune was incarcerated in the lab where she was experimented upon by S.M.I.T.E. scientists. This took away most of her abilities and reduced her to a small fox-kit form, leaving her with a disdain for humans.

After "new management" was administered to the organization, the kitsune's true nature was discovered. The scientists convinced her to join S.M.I.T.E. and in return they would help restore her full power. Begrudgingly, the kitsune agreed, and was given the identity of E. Tsukiha, a Japanese intern. The staff have often jokingly called her Eleanor, but E denies this name with strong distaste.

## Personality and traits

Because of her vulpine nature, E is a cunning and clever individual with a highly mischievous nature. Due to her status as a nine-tailed kitsune, E thinks highly of herself and prides her abilities while taunting those she sees as mortal or weaker than her with unrestricted snark. She is not completely conceited, however, as she knows better than to be self-absorbed in imminent danger. Her time in S.M.I.T.E. labs has left her with a feverish enmity towards humans as an unworthy species and sees them as being the same selfish people who captured her in the first place. E can be cold and outright indifferent towards others, even to those who try to help the kitsune, making her almost unapproachable. She also extremely hates being called menial names or treated like an inferior, such as being considered "cute" to her otherwise fearsome reputation.

However, she is honest, keeping promises with others and solemnly focusing on an objective whenever she is encouraged enough. She also enjoys being treated with respect or kindness rather than disturbance or intolerance. Despite her misanthropic disposition, she can also display respect to ones who have proven their "potential" to her. E has immense sympathy for creatures who were mistreated by humans similar to her own experience and will go out of her normally insensitive way to protect them as much as possible.

E also tends to behave more wild and animalistic due to her true identity as a fox rather than a human, but oftentimes is resentful of having to stay in human form or her humiliating kit form when in public.

## Powers and abilities

Like all kitsune, E is an adept shapeshifter, in that she can transform into anything or change her size. Originally, she was much wiser and had the ability to control the elements at her whim among many other skills, however S.M.I.T.E. had since stripped her of most of this and reduced her shapeshifting abilities severely. Now, she can only transform into solid objects or creatures, though without the form's innate abilities (i.e. a bear without its keen senses, a snake without venom), and is limited to only three sizes in her fox form: a small fox-kit, a five-foot tall adult fox (her true form), or a seventy-foot tall demon fox. The final of these forms enables her impressive strength to rival larger or almost impervious monsters. She also retains human speech while in fox form. In all forms, she can retract any number of her tails in order to appear as a normal fox. In other forms, several characteristics of herself are retained, such as her coloration and eye color, but notably her shadow is always fox-shaped.

## Trivia

* Her current name is a pseudonym as E's real name is unknown, but her alias implicates her true identity as a fox spirit.
	+ E's first initial comes from her lab designation back in S.M.I.T.E. labs when she was labeled as "E-Kit Grey Fox".
	+ Her last name is Japanese for "moon tooth" (月-歯 *tsuki-ha*).
* Occasionally, E will state Japanese idioms as a share of wisdom.
* Like most kitsune, E dislikes dogs, which most of the time are able to detect her true identity as a fox. If agitated enough, she reverts to her fox form.
* In Japanese mythology, kitsune grow an additional tail every century after they live longer than 100 years. In E's case, she has all nine tails, making her over 900 years old.
* She likes spending time in the S.M.I.T.E. sanctuary as her personal link to nature.
* E has heterochromia iridium.