Ariella Tanaka

**Ariella Tanaka** is a type 1 demigod, and daughter of Jasmine Tanaka, an oni goliath, and Triton, Greco-Roman Immortal of the navy, and herald to his father, Poseidon.

## Lore

Jasmine Tanaka was born the goliath daughter of two members of a pirate group. Her father was the human captain, and her mother was his first mate, and an oni. Many many years they sailed the sea, acting akin to Robin Hood and his Merry Men, though, while Robin Hood roamed Sherwood Forest, the crew of the Red Cutlass sailed the seven seas, robbing from other pirates, and giving it to the less fortunate. One day, Jasmine met a young man while they were ashore, and they fell in love. Jasmine knew that something was strange about her suitor, but she liked it. After a while, the young couple found out that she was pregnant, and then her young suitor revealed himself to be Triton, Grecian Immortal of the navy, and herald to his father Poseidon. As such, their child would be a demigod. He then revealed that, traditionally, demigod children were to be raised by their mortal parents, but that he would visit as often as he could. A few months later, Jasmine and Triton’s daughter was born, and Jasmine named her Ariella.

## Appearance

Due to her demimyth heritage, Ariella possesses two forms which she can switch between at will. In her human form, she possesses light skin, dark hair, and brown, almond-shaped eyes. Her wardrobe most likely would be described as "pirate chic", and usually consists of loose clothing in various aquatic shades, accompanied with a large coat, a leather corset, and pirate boots.
In her magical form, Ariella's skin becomes covered in seafoam-green scales, and her hair becomes black and shaggier. Small horns sprout from her forehead, and tusks grow from her lower jaw. Her eyes turn yellow, and the pupils become ichthyoid slits. Her fingernails become claws, her hands become webbed, and fins sprout from her forearms and back. Her ears become fin-like, and her legs fuse together and become a mermaid tail, with a distinctive, trident-shaped fluke.

## Personality

If Ariella was placed on the D&D alignment chart, she would most likely be Chaotic Good. Being the granddaughter of two members of a pirate crew, one could say that Ariella is a free spirit, but, like the rest of the pirate crew she grew up around, one cannot say she doesn't have a good heart. Also, the fact that her father is a sea Immortal, she definitely doesn't like being contained and confined.

## Powers

* **Form swapping:** Due to her demimyth heritage, Ariella is able to switch between her human form and her magical form at will.
* **Enhanced agility:** Due to her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella possesses the ability to go from one movement to another effortlessly.
* **Enhanced battle proficiency:** Due to her demigod nature, Ariella is hard wired for battle, which includes, but isn't limited to, giving her the ability to see where her opponents will strike, due to the tensing of their muscles.
* **Enhanced bite:** Due to both her oni heritage, and her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella possesses a strong jaw and fangs/tusks which give her a powerful bite.
* **Enhanced condition:** Due to her demigod nature, Ariella's physiology is more enhanced than a demimyth of her heritage.
* **Enhanced dexterity:** Due to her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella is able to control her limbs, muscles, and digits extremely well.
* **Enhanced endurance:** Due to her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella is able to survive without energy for an extended period of time.
* **Enhanced reflexes:** Due to her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella possesses extremely enhanced reaction speed.
* **Enhanced stamina:** Due to her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella is able to be physically active for considerably longer periods of time than most others.
* **Enhanced strength:** Due to both her oni heritage, and her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella is able to exert a tremendous amount of strength from her muscles.
* **Enhanced vision:** Due to her oni heritage, Ariella's eyes are far more enhanced than most, allowing her to see with incredible clarity, distance, and detail, as well as in other areas of the light spectrum that most others cannot see.
* **Night vision:** Due to her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella possesses the ability to see clearly in either low-light conditions and/or complete darkness.
* **Speed swimming:** Due to her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella possesses the ability to swim at extraordinarily fast speed.
* **Amphibious respiration:** Due to her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella possesses the ability to breathe both above water and underwater.
* **Cold immunity:** Due to her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella is completely unaffected by the cold.
* **Pressure resistance:** Due to her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella is able to resist underwater pressure, especially at the bottom of the ocean.
* **Water sense:** Due to her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella is able to perceive the movement of/on a body of water with extreme accuracy, and determine where threats are located in aquatic environments and water sources. This also extends to sensing the difference between fresh and salt water.
* **Siren song:** Due to her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella is able to sing a song capable of hypnotizing anyone who hears it.
* **Sonic singing:** Due to her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella is able to sing a highly destructive blast of sound from her vocal chords.
* **Magical kiss:** Due to her father's merfolk-like influence, Ariella is able to grant others the ability to breathe underwater by kissing them.
* **Anger empowerment:** Due to her oni heritage, Ariella's strength, speed, agility, strength, and jump height are enhanced when she becomes angry. Unfortunately, after this rage ends, she ends up up getting very tired for a while.
* **Fear inducement:** Due to her oni heritage, Ariella is able to induce feelings of fear and terror in her opponents.
* **Water manipulation:** Due to her father's influence, Ariella is able to generate, shape, and manipulate water.
* **Minor weather manipulation:** Due to her father's influence, Ariella is able to manipulate the weather, but only to the extent where she's able to create a localized storm around herself.
* **Minor ice manipulation:** Due to her father's influence, Ariella is able to manipulate ice, but only to where she's able to create a localized ice storm around herself when she's in the cold.
* **Dryness inducement:** Due to her father's influence, Ariella is able to cause any object she touches to dry out while underwater.
* **Half-sibling communication:** Due to her father's influence, Ariella is able to telepathically able to communicate with her half-siblings (other children of Triton) when underwater.
* **Falling survivability:** Due to her father's influence, Ariella is able to survive falling from a really high height, as long as she lands in water.
* **Water empowerment:** Due to her father's influence, Ariella's strength, agility, reflexes, and speed becomes enhanced when she's exposed to water.
* **Healing water:** Due to her father's influence, Ariella is able to heal herself and others using water.
* **Ship control:** Due to her father's influence, Ariella possesses the ability to telekinetically control any ship she is on.
* **Aquatic bearings:** Due to her father's influence, Ariella possesses perfect bearings at sea.
* **Bubble creation:** Due to her father's influence, Ariella is able to create and control bubbles for various effects.
* **Burn resistance:** Due to her father's influence, Ariella is innately resistant to burning.
* **Conch horn summoning:** Due to her father's influence, Ariella is able to summon a version of her father's conch horn to use for various effects.
* **Ancient Greek and Latin knowledge:** Due to her demigod nature, Ariella is able to understand and speak ancient Greek and Latin, her father's native languages.
* **Aquatic life communication:** Due to her father's influence, Ariella is able to communicate with and command aquatic creatures.

## Weaknesses

* **Fatal Flaw:** Due to her demigod nature, Ariella possesses a Fatal Flaw, which, in her case, manifests itself as an inability to resist a challenge. If anyone was to challenge her in, well, anything, she cannot resist being bated, even if she knows it could kill her.