Kyuubi Wano

Art by Emmy Toyonaga

**Kyuubi Wano** is a member of the *Curious Curios* party. Kyuubi could be easily mistaken for a simple farm girl, were it not for her delicate butterfly wings and unsettling attitude towards violence and death. She claims to have been raised on a yak farm by her grandparents, though her memories of her early years are hazy at best. With both her guardians now gone, Kyuubi must now find where it is she truly belongs. She is played by Supershigi.

## Description

### Appearance

Kyuubi is a short teenage girl with fair skin and dark brown bushy hair, usually caught in a ponytail. Her slender frame, small face and pointed ears are reminiscent of those with elvish heritage. Her most noticeable feature are the wings that connect to her back. This set of four wings consist of faintly blue translucent scales, identical to that of a butterfly. Whenever Kyuubi uses her wings to hide, the color of the wings shifts to match her surroundings like camouflage.

Kyuubi wears a red dirndl, a type of dress consisting of a tight bodice over a white short-sleeved blouse with a high waisted skirt and an apron. Her apron is navy with a white embroidered outline and a pattern of red and yellow flowers at the top. Underneath her dress is a pair of form-fitting light brown trousers that stop just above the calf. A small brown leather belt is wrapped around her thin waist, to which a small satchel and two pairs of embroidered elongated diamond sashes with colorful tassels at the end. The tassels are arranged in a pattern, starting with yellow then red then green and finally silver. The same tassels can be seen on her headband, which also shares the same color and pattern as her apron, and on her black cavalier boots.

### Personality

Upon first instance, Kyuubi could be easily mistaken for a normal child. She is normally cheery energetic and very talkative, keeping very few of her thoughts inside her own head. This can be rather unfortunate when Kyuubi has a low opinion of someone, such as the Centaurs of Frostfell, where her excessive commentary riled them up as much as the party's trespassing. Like a child, she is also impulsive and prone to fits of petulance when she doesn't get her way. She is quick to retaliate to criticism and will often sulk and sling silly insults regardless of the intent behind it, as seen when it came to naming her new sword.

While Kyuubi is normally cheery and curious, she also exhibits troubling behavior as a result of her indoctrination in the gnomish facility. She has absolutely no qualms with violence and death, often seeing it as completely justifiable regardless of the situation. She will gleefully murder her foes with little hesitation, often sending them off with either a taunt or cheery smile. Sha adores weaponry of all kinds and likes to experiment with deadly alchemy for fun. Kyuubi also holds rather deep-seated grudges and records those who she perceives to have wronged her in a kill list.

However, while Kyuubi believes this behavior to be completely normal, she is surprised when others react unnerved or outright disgusted. This lack of perspective is in part due to Kyuubi's inherent innocence, as she has no real grasp on the subtleties of morality. One example is the altercation with the centaurs, where Kyuubi, after ruthlessly mocking and wounding one, decided to forcibly feed them sugar as a means of making it up to her bewildered foe, an act that made sense to her but greatly disturbed her party. Kyuubi's naïve outlook on life means she has little understanding of empathy, what is social acceptable, or why killing and stealing are considered wrong, and most attempts to teach her otherwise fall flat,

In addition to these unsettling mannerisms, Kyuubi can also just be odd. She constantly makes reference to her life on the farm to makes sense of current events, despite most analogies being completely unrelated to the subject. If she doesn't know something, Kyuubi will simply make it up on the spot, such as calling Tontu a "boof", and will refuse to budge once she has made up her mind. She also has rather peculiar likes and dislikes based on her own strange logic, such as a venomous hatred of geese for their long necks. She is also somewhat of a kleptomaniac, constantly trying to search her surroundings for treasure and pocket it when no-one is looking. Her childlike tendencies and penchant for violence make Kyuubi a truly unpredictable element for her party, who constantly look out for her to ensure she doesn't do anything she shouldn't be.

## History

### Background

Kyuubi's history is difficult to decipher as her own memories of these events are foggy and warped by her childish mind. According to her player, Supershigi, Kyuubi Wano's early years had her being molded into an assassin and infiltration specialist by a bio-research facility run primarily by gnomes. The affiliations of these gnomes is yet unclear, but from Kyuubi's referencing of "other animals" on the farm, it is evident she was one of several children within the facility. It is unknown if Kyuubi was naturally born and taken by the facility or if she was artificially created under their supervision.

### The Innocent Assassin

Kyuubi's time in the facility is heavily implied to have been a harsh learning environment. Along with the other children, Kyuubi was instructed how to kill using a variety of weapons and to stay unseen while doing so. The children were also given information about their targets by means of a kill list, a system Kyuubi still uses today. Perhaps most horrifically, Kyuubi's description of animals fighting over food gives the impression that the children were pitted against each other in gladiatorial matches as part of their training. One of Kyuubi's nursery rhymes also implies that the children were starved if they did not perform adequately, and it is not known if that was the worst punishment they might receive.

When Kyuubi reached an appropriate age, the facility staff decided to enhance her further. To this end, they enlisted the help of a world-renowned doctor called Oshi, also known as the Father of Radiation. Dr. Oshi's exact reasons for performing this surgery are yet unclear. Nevertheless, he operated on Kyuubi to graft on a set of delicate butterfly wings onto her back. Despite potential drugs given to her, Kyuubi was still conscious enough during the procedure to remember a flash of Dr. Oshi's glasses as he worked. It is not known if Kyuubi's operation was unique, but her allusions to different animals on the "farm", such as cats, geese and dogs, could imply she was not the only child who had been artificially augmented.

### Rescue

Kyuubi recovered from her operation, now capable of limited flight and the ability to camouflage using her new wings. It is unclear how much longer Kyuubi stayed under the control of the gnomes, but she was eventually rescued from the facility by as of yet unknown means. The individuals who rescued her, who Kyuubi affectionately called "Grandpa" and "Grandma" took her to the continent of Etropa to hide her away from her former owners.

The trio came to live on a yak farm in the Eshonia Isles, where Kyuubi gradually became accustomed to normal life. For the next few years, Kyuubi lived in relative peace with her "grandparents" and her memories of the facility became faded and twisted to suit this new agrarian existence. However, when Kyuubi turned 13, her grandparents passed away, leaving her alone on her farm. Perhaps due to her inability to run the farm herself, Kyuubi left her home and began to wander towards the town of Lundy with no real objective in mind.

## Mechanics

### Powers and Abilities

#### Rogue Abilities

* *Expertise x 2*
* *Sneak Attack* (4d6)
* *Thieves' Cant*
* *Cunning Action*
* *Uncanny Dodge*
* *Evasion*
* Arcane Trickster Abilities
	+ *Mage Hand Legerdemain*

#### Racial Traits:

* Cloaking Wings

#### Feats

* *Mobile*
* *Telepathic*

#### Spell List

##### Cantrips

* *Mage Hand*
* *Message*
* *Shape Water*

##### 1st Level

* *Cause Fear*
* *Comprehend Languages*
* ***Ice Knife***
* *Mage Armor*
* *Silent Image*

### Notable Items

* *Boots of Spider Climb* (Attunement)
* *Cloak of Protection* +1
* *Hunter's Knife*
	+ Damage: 2d4 Slashing
* *Headband of Intellect*
* *Talisman of Bloodshed*
	+ Once per day, you can maximize the damage of your Sneak Attack. You must declare this before the sneak attack is rolled.

## Trivia

* Prior to Kyuubi's debut in Curious Curios Season 1 Episode 1, Supershigi described Kyuubi Wano as a mixture of Nova Terra from the Starcraft franchise, Yuffie Kisaragi from Final Fantasy 7 and Betty White.

## Etymology

The name "Kyuubi" is most likely derived from the Japanese *kyūbi no kitsune* (九尾の狐), a fox spirit known for their long lives and paranormal abilities. *Kyūbi* is thus the combination of *Kyū* (九) meaning "nine" and *bi* (尾), meaning "tails".

"Wano" (和野) appears to be a Japanese surname, a combination of wa (和), which means "harmony" or "peace", and no (野) meaning "field" or "plains". The Kanji character for wa (和) is also historically used as another name for Japan or things relating to Japan.