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Silken Whisper (Nao Tetsuo)
Karma: 60
Soul: 30
Vitality: 12

ARCHTYPE
Onmyoji Apprentice (10)
Soulgem Rifleman (15)
Fate: Defense the Defenseless 3
Goal: Atone for Treachery 2

ATTRIBUTES
Bod: 5 (light: 5, Med: 3, critical: 1)
Agi: 6
Senses: 6
Knowledge: 8
Spirit: 7
Empathy: 4
Station: 4

SKILLS
Marksman 2
Notice 2
Onmyojutsu 3
Evasion 2
Etiquette 2
Equipment:
Tao Sorcery Tools, 1 Talisman (15), Soulgem Rifle, 25 soulgems (10)

SHIKI
COST: 8 soul to summon, 10 karma to bind to Talisman
Sta: 3, 2 Sk, 3 Vit
Flight 2 (2cp)
Sense Link (no cost)
Gaseous form 1 (3cp)
Additional Damage 2 (4cp)
Prolonged Summoning 1 (3cp)
Ranged Attack 1 (2cp)
Soulfind 2 (2cp)

Bio:
Silken Whisper or Silk was once a faithful Onmyoji sorcerer named Nao Tetuso who volunteered for his Lord’s special military squad who use their Shiki to find and stamp out corruption and injustice in the region. This force would not only use Tao Magic, but also taught its members the use of weaponry such as rifles and naginatas in order to be as efficient in their duties.
However to Nao’s growing shock, he starts realizing that the task force had itself grew corrupt from its privilege state of being judge and executioner without a peer, accepting bribes and running what was essentially a racketeering operation on civilians wherever the task force went. While he was not the only man who was concerned about this betrayal of principals, he was the only one impious enough to become vocal about it.

Nao argued with his superiors, who would give him increasingly spurious justifications for their actions, and dismissed his concerns as nativity. One day, things came to a head when the Commander got fed up with the young onmyoji’s inability to let it go and threatened to have him cashiered and then beaten. The threats and arguments escalated until they attacked him and others who were discontent with the status quo. He fought back, killing some of the men and then fled, vowing to never be like them.

He abandoned his name, and clothes that identified him as a member of that force, paying a passerby for his spare robes. In another region, he started to work as a bounty hunter and general ‘odd jobs man’, who has a reputation for getting the job complete, but also for having a very stringent and perhaps even byzantine way of deciding who he will work for – even on the rare occasion, he offers his services at no charge. As he gives no name, others started to call him Silken Whisper due to the quality of his voice.

Appearance wise, he is quite unremarkable, short cropped hair and black eyes with a long face. He wears the robes of an wandering Taoist, with a fox-shaped brooch pinned to the neckline.

TL;DR, speculations on genderbent of characters I play and my reasonings.

( Starting with OCs )

Bold the ones you've read COMPLETELY, italicize the ones you've read part of. Watching the movie or the cartoon doesn't count. Abridged versions don't count either. BTW, according to the BBC if you've read 7 of these, you are above the average.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Ubervilles-Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Admittedly a third of them was required reading.

I absolutely hated Lord of the Flies, and Da Vinci Code was so badly researched and the writing banal that I threw it across the room in disgust.