Kitsuki Umi

Clan: Dragon

Family: Kitsuki

School: Kitsuki Investigator

Description

Umi is about 5'4", with a wiry build. She tends to favor understated but well-tailored flowing clothes in muted colors paired with sturdy footwear. Her black hair is worn long in a simple style, typically loose but put up into a bun when she expects to be active. She is fairly pale in complexion due to working primarily as a scribe and researcher living in the cold mountains. Umi is reserved and steady in nearly all situations, which some take to be cold-blooded, but is also highly observant. Occasionally she makes people uncomfortable when her attention is turned on them. Umi has a very deadpan delivery and sense of humor that doesn't always come across. She carries a jian instead of a katana, and keeps her uncle's journal tucked into her obi.

Summary Character Sheet

Glory	44
Honor	45
Status	30

Endurance	8
Composure	8
Focus	4
Vigilance	2
Void Points	2

Rings

Air	2
Earth	2
Fire	2
Water	2
Void	2

Skills

Aesthetics	1
Composition	1
Courtesy	1
Culture	1
Government	3
Martial Arts [Melee]	2
Medicine	1
Meditation	1
Sentiment	2
Survival	1

Techniques

Shallow Waters

Activation: When you make a Social skill (Water) check targeting a character, you may spend Opportunity as follows:

Water O: Learn of one material item or worldly experience the target desires.

Water OO: Learn the target’s ninjō (see page 38)

Tactical Assessment

Activation: When you make an Initiative check, you may spend Opportunity in the following way:

Air O: Choose an enemy in the conflict. Learn one of their advantages (of their choice) and their physical or supernatural resistance (your choice).

Earth O: Choose a character in the conflict. They do not apply any of their disadvantages to their checks until the end of their first turn.

Water O: Choose a piece of terrain in the scene (see Terrain on page 267). Until the start of your first turn, it counts as having the Obscuring quality for Attack action checks targeting you and your allies.

Fire O: Choose a character in the conflict and one of their advantages you know. Until the end of their first turn, they apply that advantage to all of their checks.

School Ability

Kitsuki’s Method

When performing a check to investigate with any skill (see The Art of Investigation, on page 170), you may treat your ranks in the skill you are using as being equal to your school rank. If your ranks in the skill are equal to or higher than your school rank, or if you have 5 ranks in the skill, you may add a kept Ring Die set to an Opportunity result instead.

Twenty Questions

1. What clan are you part of?

   Dragon (+1 Fire, +1 Meditation, Status 30)

2. What kind of upbringing did you have?

   Kitsuki. I was born into the Mirumoto family, an unexpected late life child to my parents. They were carried away by a spring sickness when I was very small, so I was raised by my eldest sister until my ninth year, when I was formally adopted by Kitsuki Hiroshi, partner of my mother's brother, who had also died of the spring sickness. He raised me as his daughter and as a Kitsuki. (+1 Water, +1 Government, +1 Sentiment, Glory 44, 6 koku)

3. What is your school?

   Kitsuki Investigator. My father was a well known investigator, a former Jade and then Clan magistrate. He began my training, encouraging my natural curiosity and skills of observation. He ensured that I would have excellent tutors and teachers once my formal schooling began. (+1 Air, +1 Earth, +1 Culture, +1 Government, +1 Martial Arts [Melee], +1 Medicine, +1 Sentiment, Honor 45, Kata, Rituals, Shuji, Tactical Assessment, Shallow Waters, Kitsuki's Method)

4. How do you stand out within your school?

   Self-awareness and insight. Though not every investigator is a stoic, the school does teach thoroughness and patience, so that aspect of my personality did not stand out much there. But I found I often saw, or sensed, patterns and connections others missed, that I could hold both the detail and the larger image in my head at once. I also found it easier than most to put aside my own biases, to take what I saw as it presented itself.(+1 Void)

5. How do you stand out that got you one of your clan's coveted spots at the Rainbow Games?

   I am part of the Dragon contingent for the Summer Court. I must admit that I am not notable as a speaker or particularly good at deal making. My role is to observe the other contingents and proposals, to sniff out hidden traps, alliances, motives, and weaknesses for the other members of the delegation to leverage. Additionally, I acted as Kitsuki Hiroshi's secretary even from a young age, so I have a great deal of practice in preparing formal and legal documents. (+3 Government -> redistributed to +1 Composition, +1 Government, +1 Martial Arts [Melee])

6. What do you long for, in both short and long term?

   I would like nothing more than to be able to take up the same role as my adoptive father - to act as a researcher and consultant, while being able to remain on his small estate and enjoy the peace and beauty of the mountains. But I know I need more experience to really fulfill such a role, and that peace was shattered by his death in any case.

7. What is your character's relationship with their clan?

   (+1 Aesthetics)

8. What do you think about bushido?

   (+1 Survival)

9. What is your character’s greatest accomplishment so far?

   (Precise Memory)

10. What holds your character back the most in life?

    (Scorn of Uncle's Enemies)

11. What activity most makes your character feel at peace?

    (Curiosity)

12. What concern, fear, or foible troubles your character the most?

    (Conspiracy)

13. Who has your character learned the most from during their life?

    (Subtle Observer)

14. What do people notice first upon encountering your character?

15. How does your character react to stressful situations?

16. What are your character’s preexisting relationships with other clans, families, organizations, and traditions?

17. How would your character’s parents describe them?

    (+1 Courtesy)

18. What legacy have your ancestors left you?

19. What haunts your nightmares?

    I am in my uncle's estate - my estate - desperately searching for something I cannot find. Worse, I am lost within my own home, unable to find my way despite knowing this place intimately. I do not know what I am looking for, only that it is imperative I find it, and that feeling grows each time I have the dream.

20. What dreams leave you disappointed and sad when you wake because they're just a dream?

    This dream too is of my home. Of a cold, clear winter day on the mountain, a fresh snowfall from the night before. Yuki in my lap, a hot cup of tea, discussing matters with my uncle while looking out on the garden and enjoying the quiet. But that is a thing that has been, and cannot be again.