Jade Calcaire

Jade
 stands at an impressive 5' 9'' (180cm), as tall as the average French
man, and obviously much taller then the average Japanese. She has long,
flowing black hair, reaching down to her thighs. She has bright orange
eyes that pierce through the night, betraying ill intentions behind her
seductive smile. Long, pointed ears and horns that curve up the sides of
 her head give her the appearance of a demon along with the bat-like
wings that bore openly from her back. Her skin is a stone grey; soft to
the touch yet firm. She looks near the age of 30. Still young but
definitely a woman. She is quite well-endowed, sporting a very definite
hourglass figure.

Jade wears a skintight leotard, mostly to show
off her skin, and also because it allows her a lot of mobility. She also
 appreciates classical french-styled dresses for formal attire, though
she lacks much opportunity to wear it.

## **Background:**

Throughout history, gargoyles, an
architectural feature, have come to represent many things in their
mocking, frightening visages. For the Catholic Church, some are
represented as protectors of holy places, to ward off spirits. Other
depictions are a bit more blunt about it, and portray them as evil, as
to keep less literate from sinning, lest they do not awaken and hunt
them down in the night.

The Cathedral of Notre Dame is a quite
famous building, known for its many, many gargoyles. Completed in 1345,
the gargoyles of Notre Dame have come to frighten many visitors, the
evil they supposedly represent striking fear into the hearts of men. In
1548, rioting Huguenots would occupy the church, desecrating many of its
 holy symbols. One of these priests would go up a staircase to find a
few of the famous gargoyles. Decrying them as evil, he attempted to use a
 large hammer to smash the gargoyles, and cause them to topple over the
side to their doom on the ground below. However, as he approached the
first gargoyle he intended to bestow this fate, it came as quite a
surprise when it turned its head towards him and suddenly attacked! The
gargoyle grabbed the priest, turning him into stone as he screamed, and
threw him over the side instead, watching him hit the ground and smash
into hundreds of pieces, before it flew off into the sky.

Having
just awoken, the gargoyle rose from its perch, and took to the skies. It
 flew all about Paris that night, coming to see the sights it had only
previously been able to watch from far off at the chapel. Paris was a
truly wonderful city, full of life and art, and she quite enjoyed the
different views she could now get. However, as day broke, she decided to
 settle down on the corner of some new building, turning to stone once
again and assuming a frightening visage with which to stare down the
citizens, watching them, learning their ways, and most importantly,
confusing and scaring the people who noticed her mysterious appearance.

Thus,
 a cycle would begin of her awakened life in Paris. Each night she would
 'awaken', shifting back from stone to explore Paris, flying through the
 night sky like a demon of the darkness. Often she would go to frighten
people on the streets or through windows, scaring humans, who thought
she may very well be a fiend sent from Hell. Each sunrise she would find
 a new location to land and assume her statue form, so she could always
watch Paris from a new vantage point, many times getting strange and
frightened looks from those who could swear the gargoyle had not been
there the day before.

Sometimes she find and seduce drunkards as a
 prank, fooling them into believing she was a beautiful woman, and then,
 as they began to sober up, revealing her true nature, and turning them
into stone while the look of terror remained on her face. She would
often times put these statues in the middle of the street for a day
before turning them back the next night, further causing fear among the
French while she herself enjoyed the practical joke. It was from this
she earned the monkier "Méduse de Paris", for her reputation as a
temptress who turned people to stone.

She continued haunting Paris
 like this for nearly 100 years. By the mid 1600s, she was quite well
known among the French of Paris, although her methods were never quite
figured out by many, but she was notorious nonetheless. However, on one
autumn night of the year 1642, during a night of scaring the richer
people among Paris, she decided to attempt to bewitch a rich-looking
older man, quite apparently tipsy from a fun night of drinking. However,
 it was she who ended up tricked, for the man turned out to be a
powerful vampire who was living in Paris. Subdued well before she
realized exactly what kind of power she was up against, she had no
chance to escape from the vampire, and she was forced under him as a
servant of the vampire, under the threat that she would be destroyed for
 trying to make a fool of him.

Under the thumb of the vampire, she
 was instead forced do to much of the vampire's dirty work. She would
often go out to bring him prey, turning unsuspecting humans into stone
and carrying them back to the vampire's lair, a hidden chamber within
the catacombs of Paris, lying under a large building the vampire owned.
Sometimes he would ask her to go out to frighten and threaten specific
people he desired.

For some time, she was quite unhappy to be the
vampire's servant. However, over the years she eventually came to accept
 the position, and even began to like her work. Influencing these
changes, as she worked for the vampire more, she was also given more
freedom to roam and do things of her own accord until she was needed.
She was eventually even given a proper name by the vampire, "Dame
Calcaire", which she became quite fond of.

She never did get more
then friendly with the vampire, however, although she eventually did
become one of his most trusted servants. In 1789, the French Revolution
would begin, and in 1793 the lair of the vampire was stormed. Calcaire,
although loyal to the vampire, still put her life over his. When the
life of her master was in danger, she hid away and turned to stone,
leaving him for dead. After the battle had settled down, she found she
was finally free once again!

With freedom in mind, Calcaire
finally decided to leave Paris, and France altogether. Although she much
 enjoyed the city sights, the Revolution made the city, and the whole
country much too dangerous. She instead decided to begin traveling the
world, finding new towns to settle in for a short while, eventually
moving on. Through many years, Calcaire slowly moved east through
Europe, then Asia, where she would find towns to scare people in, see
sights and sounds, and even pick up bits and pieces of the languages
spoken in each new country she visited.

Over the next 50 years she
 moved through France, to the German Empire, going into Russia for a
short time before working her way southeast through Turkestan and India,
 and then more east into China. She spent quite a lot of time in China,
where the people were very superstitious, and easily found to fear her
without much work. She greatly enjoyed the architecture of the larger
cities of China, which were quite different from the sights of the west.
 She spent quite a few years in China before she learned about Japan,
which she heard was even more beautiful and was a paradise for the
supernatural.

Around the 1850s she flew into Japan, and was not
disappointed. The architecture of Japan's buildings were stunning. She
would often perch atop the roofs of the larger buildings during the day
for her usual routines, marveling at Japan's varied traditions in
building design. During the night, she'd go out and scare people as
usual, but she found it quite interesting how varied and common the
local youkai populations were.

Though she couldn't speak Japanese
herself at first, after 10 years she managed to pick it up well, and she
 had been making friends with the local youkai, often helping them out
with their tricks and scares in humans, and even giving herself a new
name. However, also after the 10 years she noticed that the youkai were
also starting to vanish, either gone or having moved. She herself
quickly learned that many of the youkai were moving out to a paradise
for people like her, and intrigued by the idea, she decided to go there
herself, leaving the large towns behind, and moving to Gensokyo.

## **Personality:**

Very youkaish.

Jade is
often polite to others, or sometimes seductive, trying to appear nice
despite being obviously a youkai. However, to humans, this is often a
veneer behind which is a more malevolent nature. She enjoys giving
humans a good scare, and will usually try to trick them or seduce them
to do it. To other youkai, she's a bit more friendly, especially if said
 youkai are friendly back. She's quite fine with teaming up with others,
 even youkai she doesn't know well, to give humans a good scare.

Jade
 isn't much for fighting others. She can defend herself if she has to,
but she doesn't typically start fights with other youkai, or humans she
knows aren't powerless. That doesn't mean she's an advocate of peace, of
 course, as she'll gladly tease or harass others as she sees fit, but
she usually stops at a point where things start turning aggressive, just
 riling people up for kicks.

Jade's manner of speaking is a little
 foreign, as Japanese is obviously not her native language. Sometimes
she'll let french words slip into her sentences, getting odd looks, but
she'll either ignore it and correct herself if she has to.

Jade is
 a bit of an architecture nut and loves exploring and admiring fancy
buildings, such as shrines, castles, mansions, etc. She prefers to sleep
 or watch from buildings with better designs, although she can sit down
just about anywhere if she really has to. She's lived in Gensoukyou for a
 long time, but it doesn't have quite as much of that kind of thing as
the Outside World does. Sometimes she longs to go back to the outside
world so she can see the changes architects have made in the last 100
years, and to visit her favorite buildings if they still exist.

Living things turned into stone
can be turned back still living, provided they didn't die of starvation
or something. She has to touch them to turn them into stone. For things
like humans, she has a tendency to turn only their skin into stone,
excluding their eyes, so that they can properly see what is going on
around them as stone, but be unable to move or do anything about it. She
 does this to generate more fear, although she could just as easily turn
 the whole of them into a statue without harm to them or difficulty for
her. Not surprisingly, if you break something living that has been
turned into stone by her, you'll effectively be killing it. Living
Petrification wears off eventually, dependent on how much was turned
into stone. A small portion being petrified might last an hour. Having
your skin turned into stone and being made an example of tends to last
about a day.

Famously, she uses this power on herself as a
disguise, to watch things without being bothered, or just to sleep. She
can turn specific parts of her body into stone as she can with other
things but this comes with the benefits of being useful in things like
combat, where she can deliver a crushing punch with a stone fist, or
stop an attack stone cold by turning the part about to be hit into rock.

Nonliving
 things can be affected by her in a slightly longer range, about 6 feet,
 and she only has to be able to see it to manipulate it. In combat, if
she was forced to fight dirty, she could do something mean like turning a
 combatant's clothing into stone to weigh them down, if she gets close
enough.

As far as danmaku combat, she can use some natural amount
of earth magic to fight, although she doesn't prefer this and would
likely have an easier time in hand-to-hand combat.

## **Trivia:**

* Though Jade is friendly to most

youkai, she is especially fond of vampires, and to a lesser extent other
 western-based supernatural creatures.

* Jade can speak fluent

French, and prefers to speak it when able. Japanese is her main second
language, but she is not wholly fluent.

* Jade has a decent understanding of Chinese, and has a basic grasp of many other languages, notably English.
* Jade is illiterate in all languages except French.