Name: Yuki Shiro (translation from Japanese: "Snow White" because he's a snow dragon)(This name is private/secret and usually only given out on a need-to-know or on a personal basis)
Alias: Serpente Bianco (Translation from Italian is "White Serpent")(this is the name he goes by in public)
Age: Yuki doesn't know so he just comes up with a random number whenever he's asked.
Birthday: Another thing Yuki doesn't know, so he substitutes January 13th as his birthday instead.
Gender: Male
Category: School Staff
Occupation: It's difficult to say what Yuki does at the school on a regular basis; one might argue he's a full-time Dorm Parent, but beyond that, he seems to voluntarily shuffle between departments- working as an assistant in the library one day, helping fill out paperwork and run documents back and forth for the counselors another day, every once in a great while he can be found with security on patrol, sometimes he'll be in the daycare or the classrooms helping out, and it goes beyond that as well. However, the one thing he doesn't really do is act as a Powers Study Tutor- he's taken on a couple of students in the past, who've tracked him down and gotten him to agree as a special favor, but to date almost every single one has quit right away.
Race/Species: Snow Dragon
Appearance Description: Yuki is Japanese, nearly six feet tall, and usually walks around with closed eyes because of his powers. He's usually dressed comfortably, moves in a rather serpentine way, and has a pretty good build for running- or dodging, if needed. Very flexible, nearly always smiling or smirking, very agile. He has a circular scar on his lower left back, and a few small and faded scars on his arms and legs, seven in total, but nothing more serious than a few white lines that aren't really noticeable unless you're looking for them.
(not sure how to resize the pic using coding so tossing it in a spoiler)
Personality Description: Yuki is the type who prefers using tricks and manipulation, whether it be by his powers or through blackmailing or misleading other people, into fighting for him. He's the type who will gladly slither his way out of responsibility if he can, but once he's cornered, he's ferocious. Even though he puts on a polite front, it's important to not forget Yuki is extremely dangerous if provoked into action. He enjoys a bit of wordplay now and again and has been known to refer to himself as "the last male child of the sinful heart". Even though his fighting style requires physical contact, it's designed around the idea of being able to run away if he's ever on the front lines and on temporarily disabling rather than defeating his opponents. Yuki himself as confirmed he has taken a vow to "not take the life of another intentionally" and is strongly against the use of weaponry in combat with other people. He calls himself a "semi-pacifist" because he doesn't want to injure anybody and attempts to get by without violence, but it doesn't mean he isn't prepared to use it when needed. The most important thing to remember about Yuki is that he rarely does anything for anybody without getting something out of it, which he will insist on determining ahead of time if at all possible. It is very unwise to ever say that you'll "owe him a favor" or that you'll "do anything" in exchange for something. He will take them at their word and expect them to keep it or he will consider them "in breach of contract" and will seek vengeance.
Powers:Just something offhand to be noted: because Yuki is a dragon, after all, even if he can't turn into a dragon anymore, his lifespan is still much longer than that of a person's. Since these vary from dragon to dragon, just how long his lifespan is has yet to be determined.
Magic Ability: Rune Magic: Snowflake Rune: Psychic Puppeteer
By placing a specially prepared mark on a target, Yuki can take remote control of a target object and move it according to how he envisions it moving (if that makes sense). However, he can ONLY target inanimate objects; if they have any special powers of abilities, he CANNOT activate them; he is essentially placing a mark on a "magical Golem" that is nothing more than a physical-attack-based-toy. He has been known to "break", or render unusable, more than a few Golems by sending mental commands for things they were incapable of doing, either because they were not flexible enough or it surpassed their durability or ability. For example, he cannot command a statue to walk unless it has moving parts, and he cannot command something to explode or do something it is naturally incapable of doing. He can, however, intentionally "Break" an object by sending it an impossible command, which usually results in some sort of magical explosion; for example, a sweater might burst into a cloud of yarn, or a statue might crumble into tiny rocks. Examples of things he CAN do, so long as he targets inanimate objects, and ONLY inanimate objects, or mark an article of clothing, such as a button-up sweater, and from there order it to tighten or shrink, or the buttons to fasten or unfasten. He can command a manikin to move, run, jump, et cetera, but ONLY if it has the moving parts needed for such a task. He can command a pen to write, whereby it flows across the paper as though it has an invisible hand, but it can't find extra paper or turn the page of a notebook for itself. He CANNOT control cameras, computers, or automobiles or other microchip/internet-powered devices such as phones or video game consoles, or anything currently hooked up to the internet, but he can control the offline remote controls. In addition, these magical marks, while spiritual in nature, usually take at least a half-hour to prepare because they must first be drawn onto something with a very exact design and by a specific ritual. The end result of the mark typically looks like a snowflake with Lord of the Rings-style Elvish writing in all of its little holes on a half-inch scale to a one-inch scale, so typically a very fine ink brush and a magnifying glass are needed to make these marks. He cannot have more than three at a time because of the rituals and the type of magic, and if he makes a new one, or starts to, while he has three made, the first will become deactivated immediately, regardless of if he finishes the new one of not. These marks are stored on little pieces of paper, typically, and when activated there is a key phrase required, whereupon their "spiritual essence" will emerge from the paper, leaving it blank, and during which time he has thirteen seconds to attach it to something or it will go inactive. He must physically touch something for at least three seconds for the mark to attach itself and to take effect. These three seconds must be within the thirteen-second limit or the mark will go inactive. If the target breaks away during those three seconds, the mark will go inactive. An active Mark can last up to six hours, one for each point of the snowflake, though it can be released at any time with no penalty.
Note: Here is the typical Snowflake Design for his Mark. He can have only 3 Marks at a time and these Marks cannot be on the same piece of paper (as in, they cannot be the paper themselves but rather a drawing on a piece of paper):
Magic Ability: Living Magic: Sensory Deprivation (often shortened to "Deprivation")
Yuki has the ability to shut off the senses by a special type of rune magic, but only one at a time and on only one target at a time. Since this magic must ALWAYS be active, though it costs no magic power, he usually has it focused on himself, targeting either his sense of sight or taste, though sometimes he will shut off his sense of hearing or smell. When one sense is shut off, the others become stronger, an asset to anybody who has trained/honed those senses and is used to working with only four senses or less. He also cannot target people who are already deprived of one sense, so he can't target deaf people or the blind. He must also stay within thirty feet of the target at all times or the magic will return to him and rob him of two senses for half an hour under a condition known as "Penalty Box". He cannot use this power on anybody but himself at the same time as any other power of powers, whether they're his powers or those of an inanimate accessory such as a magic talisman or amulet, or a ritual spell or ouija board, or else "Penalty Box" will occur. The most notable issue is that me must touch a target for at least five seconds for Deprivation to work on anybody but himself. If he starts using Deprivation on a target and they break away, there will be no penalty but he cannot target them for sixty seconds. Deprivation has a maximum time limit on any target except Yuki of thirteen hours, and for each hour spent away from himself Deprivation must then stay with Yuki for fifteen minutes in what can be termed as a "recharge phase". Example: If Yuki uses deprivation on a target other than himself for six hours, on return to himself, he cannot use Deprivation on another target for an hour and a half. In addition, once the sense is "deprived", so to speak, on a target other than himself, he cannot change it so long as they are "deprived". However, he can change his own "deprived" sense at any time he wishes, although it takes five seconds to switch between the senses, during which he must remain stationary. If he does not, he will not be able to change his sense for three minutes and the sense that was already "deprived" is the one that stays "deprived" while no ill effects occur on the sense he was switching to.
Non-Magical: Seven Points
Yuki has trained in a style of martial arts that focuses heavily on unarmed combat, one that involves a lot of being agile and fit, enough to dodge, duck, dive, dip, and dodge most, but not all, incoming close-range physical blows, and a lot of mid- or long-range attacks. His martial arts style focus on the seven major chakra points in the body, as well as many pressure points and energy points throughout the body where the nervous system runs. His style is based not on the ability to defeat the opponent but to "disable" them by mucking up their internal mental command system temporarily- long enough for the user of this style to escape from their pursuer. If has been occasionally known to backfire and temporarily increase their target's abilities, but Yuki rarely has gotten it wrong. This style of fighting does not inflict much pain; when hit by it, the target rarely feels anything more than the equivalent of getting poked or slapped. In addition, rarely has it ever managed to so much as bruise a target for very long, and on even less occasion has it ever injured a person. Yuki has trained in this style because he calls himself a "semi-pacifist" and has taken a vow where refuses to use weapons against other people or to intentionally take lives by his own hand.
Here are the seven main chakra points of the body, for those wondering:
Biography: Yuki is rather tight-lipped about where he came from or what he did before he came to Manta Carlos. It's a fact he lost the ability to morph into a dragon form a very long time ago, but how and why aren't known. Since he's gotten to the island, there have been a few people he's taken on as private students as a powers study tutor who've asked him as a "personal favor" to themselves, but they all quit rather quickly and were not allowed by the terms of their contracts with him to say anything about his training methods, though it's been suggested he's crazy. For the most part, he works at the school in various staff positions and shuffles around a lot between departments; the only thing he does "full-time" is act as a Dorm Parent.
Alias: Serpente Bianco (Translation from Italian is "White Serpent")(this is the name he goes by in public)
Age: Yuki doesn't know so he just comes up with a random number whenever he's asked.
Birthday: Another thing Yuki doesn't know, so he substitutes January 13th as his birthday instead.
Gender: Male
Category: School Staff
Occupation: It's difficult to say what Yuki does at the school on a regular basis; one might argue he's a full-time Dorm Parent, but beyond that, he seems to voluntarily shuffle between departments- working as an assistant in the library one day, helping fill out paperwork and run documents back and forth for the counselors another day, every once in a great while he can be found with security on patrol, sometimes he'll be in the daycare or the classrooms helping out, and it goes beyond that as well. However, the one thing he doesn't really do is act as a Powers Study Tutor- he's taken on a couple of students in the past, who've tracked him down and gotten him to agree as a special favor, but to date almost every single one has quit right away.
Race/Species: Snow Dragon
Appearance Description: Yuki is Japanese, nearly six feet tall, and usually walks around with closed eyes because of his powers. He's usually dressed comfortably, moves in a rather serpentine way, and has a pretty good build for running- or dodging, if needed. Very flexible, nearly always smiling or smirking, very agile. He has a circular scar on his lower left back, and a few small and faded scars on his arms and legs, seven in total, but nothing more serious than a few white lines that aren't really noticeable unless you're looking for them.
(not sure how to resize the pic using coding so tossing it in a spoiler)
Personality Description: Yuki is the type who prefers using tricks and manipulation, whether it be by his powers or through blackmailing or misleading other people, into fighting for him. He's the type who will gladly slither his way out of responsibility if he can, but once he's cornered, he's ferocious. Even though he puts on a polite front, it's important to not forget Yuki is extremely dangerous if provoked into action. He enjoys a bit of wordplay now and again and has been known to refer to himself as "the last male child of the sinful heart". Even though his fighting style requires physical contact, it's designed around the idea of being able to run away if he's ever on the front lines and on temporarily disabling rather than defeating his opponents. Yuki himself as confirmed he has taken a vow to "not take the life of another intentionally" and is strongly against the use of weaponry in combat with other people. He calls himself a "semi-pacifist" because he doesn't want to injure anybody and attempts to get by without violence, but it doesn't mean he isn't prepared to use it when needed. The most important thing to remember about Yuki is that he rarely does anything for anybody without getting something out of it, which he will insist on determining ahead of time if at all possible. It is very unwise to ever say that you'll "owe him a favor" or that you'll "do anything" in exchange for something. He will take them at their word and expect them to keep it or he will consider them "in breach of contract" and will seek vengeance.
Powers:Just something offhand to be noted: because Yuki is a dragon, after all, even if he can't turn into a dragon anymore, his lifespan is still much longer than that of a person's. Since these vary from dragon to dragon, just how long his lifespan is has yet to be determined.
Magic Ability: Rune Magic: Snowflake Rune: Psychic Puppeteer
By placing a specially prepared mark on a target, Yuki can take remote control of a target object and move it according to how he envisions it moving (if that makes sense). However, he can ONLY target inanimate objects; if they have any special powers of abilities, he CANNOT activate them; he is essentially placing a mark on a "magical Golem" that is nothing more than a physical-attack-based-toy. He has been known to "break", or render unusable, more than a few Golems by sending mental commands for things they were incapable of doing, either because they were not flexible enough or it surpassed their durability or ability. For example, he cannot command a statue to walk unless it has moving parts, and he cannot command something to explode or do something it is naturally incapable of doing. He can, however, intentionally "Break" an object by sending it an impossible command, which usually results in some sort of magical explosion; for example, a sweater might burst into a cloud of yarn, or a statue might crumble into tiny rocks. Examples of things he CAN do, so long as he targets inanimate objects, and ONLY inanimate objects, or mark an article of clothing, such as a button-up sweater, and from there order it to tighten or shrink, or the buttons to fasten or unfasten. He can command a manikin to move, run, jump, et cetera, but ONLY if it has the moving parts needed for such a task. He can command a pen to write, whereby it flows across the paper as though it has an invisible hand, but it can't find extra paper or turn the page of a notebook for itself. He CANNOT control cameras, computers, or automobiles or other microchip/internet-powered devices such as phones or video game consoles, or anything currently hooked up to the internet, but he can control the offline remote controls. In addition, these magical marks, while spiritual in nature, usually take at least a half-hour to prepare because they must first be drawn onto something with a very exact design and by a specific ritual. The end result of the mark typically looks like a snowflake with Lord of the Rings-style Elvish writing in all of its little holes on a half-inch scale to a one-inch scale, so typically a very fine ink brush and a magnifying glass are needed to make these marks. He cannot have more than three at a time because of the rituals and the type of magic, and if he makes a new one, or starts to, while he has three made, the first will become deactivated immediately, regardless of if he finishes the new one of not. These marks are stored on little pieces of paper, typically, and when activated there is a key phrase required, whereupon their "spiritual essence" will emerge from the paper, leaving it blank, and during which time he has thirteen seconds to attach it to something or it will go inactive. He must physically touch something for at least three seconds for the mark to attach itself and to take effect. These three seconds must be within the thirteen-second limit or the mark will go inactive. If the target breaks away during those three seconds, the mark will go inactive. An active Mark can last up to six hours, one for each point of the snowflake, though it can be released at any time with no penalty.
Note: Here is the typical Snowflake Design for his Mark. He can have only 3 Marks at a time and these Marks cannot be on the same piece of paper (as in, they cannot be the paper themselves but rather a drawing on a piece of paper):
Magic Ability: Living Magic: Sensory Deprivation (often shortened to "Deprivation")
Yuki has the ability to shut off the senses by a special type of rune magic, but only one at a time and on only one target at a time. Since this magic must ALWAYS be active, though it costs no magic power, he usually has it focused on himself, targeting either his sense of sight or taste, though sometimes he will shut off his sense of hearing or smell. When one sense is shut off, the others become stronger, an asset to anybody who has trained/honed those senses and is used to working with only four senses or less. He also cannot target people who are already deprived of one sense, so he can't target deaf people or the blind. He must also stay within thirty feet of the target at all times or the magic will return to him and rob him of two senses for half an hour under a condition known as "Penalty Box". He cannot use this power on anybody but himself at the same time as any other power of powers, whether they're his powers or those of an inanimate accessory such as a magic talisman or amulet, or a ritual spell or ouija board, or else "Penalty Box" will occur. The most notable issue is that me must touch a target for at least five seconds for Deprivation to work on anybody but himself. If he starts using Deprivation on a target and they break away, there will be no penalty but he cannot target them for sixty seconds. Deprivation has a maximum time limit on any target except Yuki of thirteen hours, and for each hour spent away from himself Deprivation must then stay with Yuki for fifteen minutes in what can be termed as a "recharge phase". Example: If Yuki uses deprivation on a target other than himself for six hours, on return to himself, he cannot use Deprivation on another target for an hour and a half. In addition, once the sense is "deprived", so to speak, on a target other than himself, he cannot change it so long as they are "deprived". However, he can change his own "deprived" sense at any time he wishes, although it takes five seconds to switch between the senses, during which he must remain stationary. If he does not, he will not be able to change his sense for three minutes and the sense that was already "deprived" is the one that stays "deprived" while no ill effects occur on the sense he was switching to.
Non-Magical: Seven Points
Yuki has trained in a style of martial arts that focuses heavily on unarmed combat, one that involves a lot of being agile and fit, enough to dodge, duck, dive, dip, and dodge most, but not all, incoming close-range physical blows, and a lot of mid- or long-range attacks. His martial arts style focus on the seven major chakra points in the body, as well as many pressure points and energy points throughout the body where the nervous system runs. His style is based not on the ability to defeat the opponent but to "disable" them by mucking up their internal mental command system temporarily- long enough for the user of this style to escape from their pursuer. If has been occasionally known to backfire and temporarily increase their target's abilities, but Yuki rarely has gotten it wrong. This style of fighting does not inflict much pain; when hit by it, the target rarely feels anything more than the equivalent of getting poked or slapped. In addition, rarely has it ever managed to so much as bruise a target for very long, and on even less occasion has it ever injured a person. Yuki has trained in this style because he calls himself a "semi-pacifist" and has taken a vow where refuses to use weapons against other people or to intentionally take lives by his own hand.
Here are the seven main chakra points of the body, for those wondering:
Biography: Yuki is rather tight-lipped about where he came from or what he did before he came to Manta Carlos. It's a fact he lost the ability to morph into a dragon form a very long time ago, but how and why aren't known. Since he's gotten to the island, there have been a few people he's taken on as private students as a powers study tutor who've asked him as a "personal favor" to themselves, but they all quit rather quickly and were not allowed by the terms of their contracts with him to say anything about his training methods, though it's been suggested he's crazy. For the most part, he works at the school in various staff positions and shuffles around a lot between departments; the only thing he does "full-time" is act as a Dorm Parent.
