Nikuiko

### Class

Monk 4/Genesis (quintessentialist) 6/Psychic Fist 10//Soulknife (War Soul) 1/Psychic Warrior 3/Awakened Blade 6/Dark Tempest 10

## Physical description

### Eye color

Red

**Nikuiko** is a high-ranking half-giant who works for Choko. She cares for two young psionicists while acting as something of a secretary. She is a bitter individual who generally dislikes forming relationships. She is an experienced martial artist with the power to form an incredibly deadly mind blade infused with the power of malice that lives within her heart, as well as the ability to project an *exemplar*, a reflection of her best self.

## Personality

Although quite smart, Nikuiko is incredibly short-tempered and naturally in a bad mood. She quickly forms grudges when angered, although there are not a lot of things that make her genuinely angry. Her observational skills are only apparent when facing an opponent she can't run at and beat up, or a puzzle. She prefers brute strength over skill. She is fairly sensical and often times acts as the anchor for a group in avoiding dumb ideas. She possesses a soft spot for cute things, and particularly children, which is why she took Ayumu and Usomi under her care. Otherwise, she doesn't go out of her way to form bonds with others, so her only friends are the people who bother talking to her.

## History

She was born to a kalashtar and a half-giant (thus making her more of a quarter-giant, but the rules don't care for that) in 1989. She lived in Choko's city her whole life. She had an eh-ish childhood, and fell into delinquency. She met Choko at the age of 14 when the latter went to her school for a presentation of sorts, and Choko was interested in her methodology and potential, so she took her in and gave her some advanced training. After school, she took up a position as Choko's secretary.

At some point, she gets word of Ayumu and Usomi wandering about, and decides to take them in.

## Relationships

### Choko

Choko and Nikuiko met when Nikuiko was 14. She took her in and taught her to fight with her psionic talents. They became friends. Nikuiko dedicated herself to serving Choko, kind of as a job. Choko was happy to have the extra help, especially since Nikuiko is very competent at her job.

### Perseus

Nikuiko and Perseus are great friends, as Choko is with Nikuiko. Nikuiko thinks she is convenient to talk to, because Choko is often busy. They converse a lot as friends, but also spend a great deal of time talking about business, as Perseus is the main agent Nikuiko reports to, and Nikuiko is given clearance to request all functions from Perseus.

### Ayumu & Usomi Sakimori

Both of Nikuiko's charges are too old, or rather, she is too young for them to be her kids. Despite this though, they treat her as something of an adoptive mother. The both of them used to think she was pretty scary when they first met, but when she quickly warmed up to them, they saw her as more of a guardian who could protect them. Ayumu treats her with the love and affection a child would give to their mother, and Usomi tries her best to help Nikuiko where possible, and lighten her workload, but Nikuiko rarely lets her do much in that regard as she A. doesn't want a teenage girl to bear her responsibilities and B. doesn't actually trust Usomi enough to get things done.

### PM01

Conceptually, Nikuiko finds PM01 very creepy. In execution it's made worse by the fact that he is emotionally stunted and very awkward at talking to people. Nikuiko sees him as sub-human. However, she appreciates having someone else to turn to to get things done on other worlds, and she enjoys fighting with him as his ranged style of combat synergizes very well with her melee style. Naturally, PM01 doesn't really think much about her, but she works with him and Choko, so he's fine with her.

### Nanasuji Shitodo & Tsubaki Kawasemi

Nikuiko doesn't have any opinions on these two per se, except that they remind her that her best friend is centuries older than her, but she supports Choko's friendship with them and thinks that her pale crush on Tsubaki is cute.

## Abilities & Skills

Unlike Choko, Nikuiko focuses on applying her psionics to augment her physical form, especially when it comes to combat. She is not particularly knowledgeable, but knows a thing about first aid (and can do it pretty well), psionics, engineering and *geography*, as well as talking to and leading others, even though she isn't particularly good at it. She is adept at the theory side of martial arts, and can recognize the key features of a discipline on sight.

Nikuiko derives a portion of her power from Choko, via a pact similar to what warlocks have. Through this, she derives her mythic abilities, which are less potent than those who have theirs innately. If Choko dies permanently, her mythic abilities disappear, but *good luck with that lmao.*

Nikuiko is incredibly skilled with her main weapon of choice: whips. This is made even more deadly by the fact that her mind blade cuts through almost everything like butter, including armor and flesh. She can use whips to grapple objects and people, fling things around, and the radius in which she can punish retreating enemies is significantly greater than most. On the contrary, she is hard to catch off-guard when making her whip attacks. She is also skilled with unarmed fighting, and blends the two together when she feels like it.

She can manifest psionic powers such as *psionic recharge*, *breath of the black dragon*, which makes her shoot acid from her face, *dimension slide* and *fold space*, which allow her to hop through space, and *hustle*, which turns psychic energy and a small amount of time into a larger amount of time for her to move with. She can also initiate maneuvers from the Black Seraph, Radiant Dawn, Elemental Flux and Riven Hourglass disciplines. She particularly favors Riven Hourglass, and her time manipulating abilities are potent enough to do things like gain extra time to cast spells or initiate maneuvers, or even counter something with a full six seconds of retaliation before it happened, potentially negating the event outright. She is also skilled at Radiant Dawn and Elemental Flux, giving her akashic healing/support-focused abilities and raw elemental damage output. She dabbles in Black Seraph to steal the lifeforce of her enemies and fire dangerous shotgun blasts. Her mythic abilities allow her to maintain two stances at once, like PM01.

As a quintessentialist, she has access to more psionics, which she has some difficulty using due to her sheared mind. Genesis powers are primarily psychoportive or metabolic in nature, typically altering her physical form. Her main ability is to project an "exemplar", a psychic image of her perfect self formed from ectoplasm. It has many things in common with Stands (pre-Scratch), except that anyone can see her exemplar, and it doesn't reflect damage onto her, and despite its strength, it has a pretty far range limitation. She can share powers manifested onto herself with her exemplar, which is very useful because she can manifest powers like *major metamorphosis.* The only real downside is that projecting an exemplar is draining, and her life force slowly ticks away while she uses it. Nikuiko's exemplar typically acts under her control, but if she is in a position where she cannot control herself, then it will sometimes take over and command *her*. This is usually as a result of succumbing to her fears or being affected by a mind-affecting spell or power, and sometimes it will remind her to calm down and focus. Her exemplar is named THE RED KING, and it is fueled by Nikuiko's feelings of bitterness and hatred, as well as her dedication to her cause. THE RED KING is a 6-armed, 8 foot tall blackguard formed from shadow and armed with psychic energy that takes the form of a fluid-like sword and plate armor. It attacks with every ability it has at its disposal, including manifesting Nikuiko's psionic powers, slamming with its gauntlets and striking with its sword, which it enlarges and wields in two hands. Damage done from THE RED KING's physical attacks carries a lingering taint of evil, and healing it is most difficult, requiring some degree of purification at a holy site. THE RED KING's greatsword spills great amounts of blood when it strikes, which is a threat all on its own, and its slam attacks burn away at an opponent's flesh as though they were charged with hellfire. THE RED KING possesses the weaknesses of undead, but can recover wounds on its own, and can sense the lifeforce of the living within range, essentially allowing it to operate without sight. It uses maneuvers from the Sleeping Goddess and Eternal Guardian disciplines, and can bind others into a collective.

She has abilities that normally only monks acquire. This includes a preternatural sixth sense that wards her from danger, knowledge of where to strike with her fists to make it hurt, and the ability to perform a flurry of blows that trades accuracy for more attacks in a shorter amount of time, although she rarely uses this because she can't do it with her whip. She also possesses a ki pool, a reserve of personal energy she can access to temporarily enhance her abilities. She can charge her whip with psionic energy to deal devastating lacerations. She can psionically focus her subconscious because extra focus good.

As a half-giant, Nikuiko is naturally psionic, and her powerful build lets her do many things with the advantages of being larger than she actually is. As a blooded scion of Azrai's derivation, she has an increased lifespan, the ability to "smell" tighmaevril and locate it, and the ability to produce poison with a touch that spoils food and water and damages the constitution of those who are affected by it. She can utilize regency points, a representation of her influence over others as a regent, which Choko takes advantage of in Magnum Opus 1 to allow Nikuiko to take over her position temporarily. She maintains a small collection of workers that answer to her directly, a sub-sect of Sollum's employees. These workers listen to her via her regency.

### Equipment

Nikuiko's robes are enchanted to give her the abilities of a more powerful monk, which stack with her Tashalatora techniques. Her favorite weapon of choice is her mind blade, which takes the form of a technological weapon known as a monowhip. On top of her weapons, she carries around a phone and a wallet.

## Trivia

* Her pre-scratch counterpart is Nikuiko (pre-scratch). Pre-scratch Nikuiko haunts my nightmares. Like, she was the daughter of DIO from JoJo and Sakuya from Touhou, and Sakuya was fucking half Saiyan. And she apparently learned most of Zamasu DBS's techniques???? WHY????
	+ Her time powers are a reference to her pre-scratch self's parents. I thought it was weird that she didn't have *any* time powers.
	+ Her spell card names are generally an adaptation of her pre-scratch self's techniques, which are in turn derived from Zamasu.
	+ She is canonically British-Japanese, which is also a reference to her pre-scratch self's parents.
		- Despite this though, her parents are not DIO or Sakuya in any way.

* In the super super past, she was literally Madotsuki Yume Nikki, in the same way Nara is Tiara from Petscop. She was conjured from nonexistence by Ayumu via a combination of the Phantom Ruby from Sonic and the Aether from the MCU. Again, apparently my lore just made *no fucking sense!!!!* Either way, she later died and was resurrected, becoming Nikuiko in the process.
	+ I have been pairing her with Ayumu ever since, probably for this reason.
	+ As Choko is inspired by Madotsuki (mostly appearance-wise), you could see why I put her with Choko too.

* The name of THE RED KING is a reference to FACE from Yume Nikki, which is apparently known as "the Red King" by Japanese fans.
* She has a fear of drowning.