Sees-the-Ocean

**Sees-the-Ocean** is a Same-bito.

## Biography

You were born in the Sea of Japan. You grew to maturity eating squid and fish, keeping to the temperate waters just below the sunlit zone. You never cared much about ships—they were a fact of life, and you stayed well below them. Then one night, you chased a squid right into a net. You were pulled onto the boat, thrashing, snapping your jaws, but to no avail. The strange creatures on the ship held you down and you felt a pain like nothing you'd ever known, first on your back, then your sides. They dropped you back into the ocean, and you thought you would live, until you tried to swim and found you could not. Your blood in the water attracted another shark, and you instinctively tried to fight— and instead grew until you were as big as the murderous ship still floating above you. Your fins grew back, and the shark that found you made some quick explanations — after you finished with the crew. Your visit with Sea told you that your job was to enforce Harmony in the oceans. You didn't need to be told that finning upset that Harmony. Your visit with the Beast Courts, however, confused you. The elders told you that you were not to war on humankind, but also to protect sacred territory. Sacred territory to you is the ocean, and protection means killing the humans who would dismember your brethren. You see the wisdom in both edicts, yet you do not see how to fulfill one without breaking the other. Given the choice, you always choose to protect your home. If the elders fear discovery and retribution from the humans, that, you shamefully feel, is their own dilemma.

Since your Long Swim, you have made special efforts to target (and sink) finning vessels. You don't care if the people who crew them are servants of Qyrl or not, you just want them dead. In your heart, you feel more anguish than anger against these humans—do they not realize the agony they put their victims through? The elders have told you that sinking too many of these ships will draw attention and will be dangerous for the Beast Courts. You are aware that the Code of Mizuchi says that you must respect the elders, but when you see ships pulling sharks out of the water, only to drop their bloody carcasses back....

You are capable of having rational, intelligent conversations — much more so than many weresharks. You are interested in honor and the Code of Mizuchi and different interpretations on such things. Other hengeyokai are often impressed with your imaginative questions, especially from a race so often branded as primitive and stupid. Unfortunately, you shock them horribly the instant you hear of or see a finning vessel. All of your intelligence and philosophy goes straight out the proverbial window, and you become a bloody avenger, the Sea's justice. You take finning as a personal injury and though you may see the wisdom in restraint, it just doesn't sink in.

## Stats

**Breed:** Squamus

**Auspice:** Karvu or Koshoku depending on the story

**Species:** Great White

**Nature/Demeanor:** Fanatic/Curmudgeon

**Physical:** Strength 4, Dexterity 2, Stamina 4

**Social:** Charisma 2, Manipulation 3, Appearance 1

**Mental:** Perception 2, Intelligence 3, Wits, 3

**Talents:** Alertness 2, Athletics 2, Brawl 3, Expression 1, Intimidation 2, Primal Urge 3,

**Skills:** Animal Ken 2, Etiquette 2, Melee 1, Seafaring 1, Stealth 1, Survival 3

**Knowledges:** Enigmas 2, Law 1, Occult 1, Politics 1, Rituals 2,

**Backgrounds:** Allies 2, Mentor 2, Remora 1

**Gifts:** Sense Threat, King Fish, Killing Bite

**Rage:** 6

**Gnosis:** 5

**Willpower:** 4

## Quote

*Your love of a certain food is 50 great you would mutilate us for it? Perhaps I should bite off your legs and see if you can crawl to a hospital?*