Post by Noriko on Oct 10, 2015 2:05:48 GMT -4
Memories of Magic
Noriko Sakamoto
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Noriko Sakamoto
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Name: Noriko Sakamoto
Age | Birthday | Zodiac Sign: # 26 | January, 13th | Capricorn
Gender: Female
Race: Human (Hunter)
Appearance: She has red, waist length wavy hair that she keeps in a ponytail or a braid while she's hunting. She's got the same silvery/ice blue eyes as her sister, though she has a beauty mark just under her bottom lip on the left side. She always wears her mother's golden earrings to remember her by. Her traveling/hunting outfit has brown healed calf length boots, black pants. The long half skirt has pockets to hold the bloody rose and other supplies. Her shirt is a teal turtleneck with a blue collar and detachable sleeves with built in armor.
Personality: She's extremely protective of her younger sister Mayumi, even though she's old enough to be on her own and has great hunting skills. Noriko is a loner and doesn't let anyone get close except her sister. She's very skilled at hunting, and never lets her emotions show unless it's with Mayumi.
Alignment: * Good, Lawful (GL) * Neutral, True (NT)
Abilities: Noriko uses two wakizashis as her main weapons, though she always carries her mother's bloody rose that she uses as a backup, and when carrying it with her makes her feel as if her mother is protecting and watching over her. She also has the power to sense vampires, has slightly accelerated rate of healing, and she can even perform some magical spells.
History: October 17th 1990 was the day that changed Noriko's life. It was around mid-afternoon and the wind had been blowing hard all day striping the colorful leaves off the trees, and sending them into whirling eddies. When Kazumi Sakamoto brought her two daughters, thirteen year old Noriko, and three year old Mayumi to the inn. She'd been tracking this particular level E for 3 days and had finally spotted him approaching this town. Unfortunately she couldn't leave her daughters at home for there was no one she could find to look after them, so taking them along she made sure she found a safe place for them to stay while she hunted.
After hours of chasing down the level E Kazumi was able to destroy it, then she went back to the inn. But Kazumi didn't know that there was another level E in town. Later that evening as the sun was setting Kazumi was getting her daughters ready for bed, when in through the window crashed the second level E. Screeching it leapt at Kazumi catching her completely off guard as she jumped in front of her daughters. As she desperately blocked her girls the level E mortally wound her, but with her mother protecting her Noriko (having been in training with her mother for some years now) grabbed her mothers bloody rose and destroy the level E.
Noriko and Mayumi were distraught as they tried to help their mother, Noriko knew that Kazumi wouldn't survive such a terrible wound but she did her best anyway. After they buried their mother, the innkeeper took the girls to an orphanage where they stayed for five years until Noriko was eighteen. At that time Noriko took Mayumi and went to search for the Hunters. After meeting up with a group of hunters they were taken to the headquarters, and given a place to stay and training with Hiro Kaminaga. After training for a year and a half with Kaminaga, Noriko went with another hunter Sakura Masa to learn what she could and to start traveling. Mayumi stayed with Hiro Kaminaga and trained hard.
April twenty-first was the day the hunters had their trainee test, where the veteran's would pick an apprentice to teach. The hunters set up a course for the trainees not just obstacles, but also hand to hand; weapons, and varying terrain combat training. It was exhausting yet fulfilling because Sakura Masa chose Noriko out of all the other trainees to get hands on training in the real world.
Before she left Noriko gave Mayumi their mother's pendant and made her promise to never give up.
Just before Noriko left the hunter headquarters, she turned and shouted to Mayumi "Remember what Mom always said?" Blinking back tears Mayumi call back "Stay safe, Hunters succeed!" Then they both threw a punch in the air. Noriko nodded and turning followed Sakura out, vowing to become the best hunter she could.__________________________________
