Character Name: Tsuchimiya Kagura Canon: Ga-Rei (manga) Reference picture and Wiki link:wiki link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga-rei) and pic link (http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/reactive-san/Ga-Rei_v02_000_dust_cover.png) Point in the time-line taken: The latest chapter (45) Character History: For centuries, exorcists -- people with exceptional spiritual ability -- have stood between evil spirits, demonic entities and dark spiritual energy and the rest of the world that isn't even aware these things exist. Kagura is the last of a family of such exorcists and has been part of the government's "Supernatural Disaster Prevent Department" (under the Ministry of the Environment!) since she was in grade school, fighting spiritual crime by night and sleeping through class by day. However, it sucks to be an exorcist. Really, really sucks. For every one monster they drop, two more show up to take its place, and the casualties on their side climb higher every day.
When Kagura was young, her older sister figure, Yomi, was possessed and slaughtered the majority of the department, including Kagura's own father, and it was Kagura herself that was forced to put at stop to her with a nice traumatizing fatal stabbing. It was also then that she inherited the spiritual beast "Byakuei" from her dying father -- a monster sealed directly to the soul that continuously burns through the host's spiritual power until the day they die.
Two years later, she accidentally runs over the boy of her dreams with a motorbike, and after abusing government resources to find out what school he goes to, she transfers there (read: stalks him) and so begins a tale of spiritual shenanigans and the eventual destruction of the world. Canon Personality: Kagura is cheerful, kind, and energetic. She's a friendly person that, while completely ignorant of social norms most of the time, generally means well and wants to protect people -- particularly from things of a spiritual nature because, as exorcists, they are "the only people who can". She's a bit of a spaz when set off, and incredibly impulsive -- particularly with strange ideas such as using real ghosts to spice up the school's haunted house or building a snowman in the middle of a deep and heavy conversation for no particular reason. A touch random, in other words. She doesn't hesitate to put herself in the line of fire to protect people and the city she lives in, and at the end of the day, all she really wants is to be able to pass the time with the people she loves. Kensuke often calls her 'strong' because she is still such a bright, smiling person despite how hard things have been for her, but he's actually a little off-base. Kagura simply represses, even to the extreme of amnesia, at one point. Even though she saw the corruption in the world for what it is, she forced herself to smile and be happy, because she firmly believed that she could never be a burden for others. She believed she had to follow her duty exactly and without question and could never allow emotion or injury to slow her down because it would be troublesome for the other exorcists. That's how she ended up killing Yomi. Only lately, she's got a newly-formed backbone, and has decided that she's tired of losing all the people she loves, and even if she's considered a traitor, and even if it's selfish, she's going to stand by her Important People right up until the very end.
Tsuchimiya Kagura
Canon: Ga-Rei (manga)
Reference picture and Wiki link: wiki link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga-rei) and pic link (http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/reactive-san/Ga-Rei_v02_000_dust_cover.png)
Point in the time-line taken: The latest chapter (45)
Character History: For centuries, exorcists -- people with exceptional spiritual ability -- have stood between evil spirits, demonic entities and dark spiritual energy and the rest of the world that isn't even aware these things exist. Kagura is the last of a family of such exorcists and has been part of the government's "Supernatural Disaster Prevent Department" (under the Ministry of the Environment!) since she was in grade school, fighting spiritual crime by night and sleeping through class by day. However, it sucks to be an exorcist. Really, really sucks. For every one monster they drop, two more show up to take its place, and the casualties on their side climb higher every day.
When Kagura was young, her older sister figure, Yomi, was possessed and slaughtered the majority of the department, including Kagura's own father, and it was Kagura herself that was forced to put at stop to her with a nice traumatizing fatal stabbing. It was also then that she inherited the spiritual beast "Byakuei" from her dying father -- a monster sealed directly to the soul that continuously burns through the host's spiritual power until the day they die.
Two years later, she accidentally runs over the boy of her dreams with a motorbike, and after abusing government resources to find out what school he goes to, she transfers there (read: stalks him) and so begins a tale of spiritual shenanigans and the eventual destruction of the world.
Canon Personality:
Kagura is cheerful, kind, and energetic. She's a friendly person that, while completely ignorant of social norms most of the time, generally means well and wants to protect people -- particularly from things of a spiritual nature because, as exorcists, they are "the only people who can". She's a bit of a spaz when set off, and incredibly impulsive -- particularly with strange ideas such as using real ghosts to spice up the school's haunted house or building a snowman in the middle of a deep and heavy conversation for no particular reason. A touch random, in other words. She doesn't hesitate to put herself in the line of fire to protect people and the city she lives in, and at the end of the day, all she really wants is to be able to pass the time with the people she loves. Kensuke often calls her 'strong' because she is still such a bright, smiling person despite how hard things have been for her, but he's actually a little off-base.
Kagura simply represses, even to the extreme of amnesia, at one point. Even though she saw the corruption in the world for what it is, she forced herself to smile and be happy, because she firmly believed that she could never be a burden for others. She believed she had to follow her duty exactly and without question and could never allow emotion or injury to slow her down because it would be troublesome for the other exorcists. That's how she ended up killing Yomi. Only lately, she's got a newly-formed backbone, and has decided that she's tired of losing all the people she loves, and even if she's considered a traitor, and even if it's selfish, she's going to stand by her Important People right up until the very end.