Jamie Amaranth

[Kitten4u]

Name: Jamie Amaranth

Nicknames/Titles: Uh none. Seriously, call me anything but "Jamie" and I'll just ignore you. I won't even respond to Amaranth because that's totally not my name. I don't care if you're being "polite" or whatever, I won't respond to my last name. Just call me Jamie. It's a whole two syllables, you can do it.

Age: 5561

Age Appearance: 17

Race: Demon

Gender: Female

Appearance: [X]

• Height: 5' 6"
  
• Weight: 120 lbs
  
• Skin: Fairly light, but it's not sensitive or anything. I just prefer darker places. Side effect of being from Makai.
  
• Hair: Red. Well, more orange than red, but yeah.
  
• Eyes: Light blue, like an unnaturally light blue.
  
• Build: Reeeeeally skinny. I have decent leg and back muscles and a nice, hour glass figure, but I'm still reeeeeally skinny.
  
  
• Clothing: What, the picture above isn't good enough for you? You're going to make me do actual work? Ugh, you suck!
  
  Anyway I wear a purple, button-up, short-sleeved shirt. It has some frills on the front, but otherwise it's pretty simple. I wear a fancier red overcoat (if you can call it that) thing with poofy sleeves and some purple frills at the bottom. Frills are awesome like ribbons, so I wear them at nearly every opportunity I get. Anyway, the edges of these poofy sleeves are surrounded in black frills and they have a simple pattern on them as well. The overcoat isn't actually connected at the top. Like my shirt, it buttons up on the bottom until it reaches my chest, but instead of buttoning over my chest it just stops and is then later connected by a ribbon under my neck.
  
  I wear a pair of purple and black gloves that look more like detached sleeves than gloves. They're tight around my hands, loose around my wrists and lower arms, and then they get tight again near the top. Y'know, to make sure they don't fall down. The top also has some black frills on them.
  
  I wear a simple black skirt that's made out of a material that people say looks similar to leather. It's not leather though. What is it? I'll leave that to your imagination~ Anyway, it also has these weird things coming off the sides. I dunno what you people call them, but I just call them weird things. They're triangular and black with some hot pink patterns on them. I also keep a yellow ribbon around my waist. Not to hold up my skirt, but because I think it looks cool and looking cool is sweet.
  
  I also wear a pair of black thigh highs with similar hot pink patterns on them. They're not real tight because they're held up by guarder straps. Said straps are also somewhat frilly because I like frills. But other than that they're just plain old black socks. They look more like tights though since they're somewhat transparent. My shoes are just simple and black. Not much to say about them.
  
  
• Distinguishing Features: My massive wings. They're...massive. Seriously, my wing span is like nearly four times as wide as I am tall.
  
• Other: I like ribbons. A lot. And frills. They're good too.

Personality:

• Positive Traits
  
  • Outgoing and charismatic
    
  • Friendly
    
  • Easy-going
    
  • Curious and inquisitive
    
  • Exceptionally intelligent
  
  
• Negative Traits
  
  • Lazy
    
  • Obnoxious and immature
    
  • Complete coward
    
  • Impulsive
    
  • Pessimistic
  
  
• Likes
  
  • Sweet things
    
  • Being warm
    
  • Shiny things
  
  
• Dislikes
  
  • People (yet I like them for some reason at the same time, it's truly a paradox)
    
  • Being told what to do
    
  • Cold places
    
  • The sight of my own blood
  
  
• Fears
  
  • Getting hurt. And I mean this both emotionally and physically. I don't think words can describe how much this freaks me out.
    
    
  • Needles. If you were a demon you'd understand why. Or any youkai for that matter.
  
  
• Desires
  
  • To be in a position where I can do whatever the hell I want without worrying about the consequences.
    
    
  • To learn how to manipulate the sixth sense.
    
    
  • To be famous
  
  
• Habits and Quirks
  
  • I'll say "sweet" whenever I'm happy about something or if I think something is good.
    
    
  • I'll never actually look directly at someone. In fact, I rarely look in the same place for more than two seconds because I consider it important to observe my surroundings. Though, I will generally create an illusion of my face to hide this.
    
    
  • I'm generally easy-going, but there is one surefire way to piss me off if you really wanted to. And that's to ignore me or otherwise undermine my existence. This includes small things such as not calling me by my name, medium things such as walking past me when I'm decent enough to say hello, and large things such as ignoring me when I'm doing something big and impressive. Seriously, I'll get unbelievably pissed off and I'll probably eat your family or something.
    
    
  • I'm horrible at explaining things. Normally I'm pretty eloquent, but when it comes to explaining details...I just can't do it. I suppose that's because I'm an illusionist and I'm used to just SHOWING people what I saw/heard/etc.

Abilities and Fighting Style:

• Magical Abilities:
  
  • Manipulation of the five senses
    
    I'm what people call an "illusionist." Basically, I can trick the mind into thinking that something is either there or happening when there isn't. It's pretty straightforward so I'll just leave it at tha-- What? You want more details? First my clothes and now this? You really are a jerk.
    
    
  • Sight: I make people see things. Seriously, what more is there to say? I don't have to do any fancy hand motions or anything like that to create them I just sort of make them happen. Technically, I don't even have to see the area I'm creating the illusion in, though not seeing what I'm doing makes it a lot harder to get it right. Just imagine trying launch an arrow at a target without looking at it. That's what trying to create an illusion in an area I can't see is like. But, I've fully mastered this sense, so my illusions come out exactly how I imagine (no seriously, my sight illusions are only limited by my imagination) them and they're really easy to do, so they don't take very much magical energy.
    
    
  • Hearing: I make people hear things. These illusions don't actually affect the ears (like all my illusions they affect the mind), so while loud sounds may give a person the sensation that their ears are being hurt (that's mostly because people think their ears should hurt when they hear loud sounds, it's not my doing; the mind is a weird thing) it doesn't actually do anything to them. Anyway, like sight, I've mastered the art of manipulating a person's sense of hearing. My illusions are only limited by my imagination and I will almost never mess them up. They take very little out of me, so I can keep them up all day~
    
    
  • Smell: I make people smell things. Like hearing, certain smells might give the person the sensation that their nose is burning, but in reality nothing's actually happening to it. Anyway, I haven't fully mastered this sense, but I'm pretty close (it's amazing how much one can accomplish in 5000 years if they're bored enough). I'll almost always get it right, and I'm still only limited by my imagination, but manipulating a person's sense of smell just takes more energy than sight or hearing. I can still keep it up for long periods of time, but I'll start to feel it after awhile where as with sight and hearing I can keep it up all day and barely feel a thing.
    
    
  • Touch: I make people feel things. I can only manipulate a person's physical sense of touch; not their emotions. This is where things get difficult. Doing this is really, really hard. While I can make people feel anything I could possibly imagine, I tend to mess this one up a lot. If I wanted to make someone feel like they were on fire I might make them feel freezing cold instead for example. Direct contact drastically increases my chances of getting it right, as does dumping more magical energy into the illusion. It already takes large amounts of magical energy to pull this off, so I just normally don't use it.
    
    
  • Taste: I manipulate a person's sense of taste. Like hearing and smell, a person might get the sensation that their tongue is burning, but I'm not actually doing anything. I'm not particularly good at manipulating a person's sense of taste. I am not only limited by my imagination here; I can only make people taste something that I have tasted myself. I'm also prone to messing this up too. For example, if I want to make someone taste a cookie I might accidentally make them taste grass (what? I was a curious child). Direct contact drastically increases my chances of success, but I'm still prone to messing it up. It takes large amounts of energy, though if I'm willing to dump more of my magical energy into the illusion it increases the chances of me getting my illusion right.
    
    
  • There are only a few things that I can think of that limit my ability to create illusions. First, I must be conscious. If I fall asleep or am knocked out in anyway every illusion I've created will disappear. The other major limiter is my stores of magical energy. I can do sight an hearing with little to no effort, but taste and touch will wear me out very, VERY quickly.
    
    
  • None of my illusions are real. Meaning if I make people feel something it will not leave any lasting damage. If I make people see a horrible monster that monster will not be able to kill them because it does not exist.
  
  
• Physical abilities:
  
  • I kick stuff I guess. I'm pretty flexible, so I could kick someone in the face if I felt like it. I'm not very skilled in hand-to-hand combat though.
  
  
• Weapons:
  
  • The only thing I have that can even be sort of considered a weapon are my feathers. I am capable of shooting them at my foes at reasonably high speeds. They certainly can't be considered throwing knives, but they are capable of piercing the skin if the person's hit with the hard part hard enough. Though, even if they are hit with the hard part it won't mess them up too badly; it'll just nick the skin a little. They'd be in no danger of bleeding to death or anything and they'd probably be able to fight just fine even if hit them in the chest. They make very effective smoke screens though, and they can be pretty powerful if someone sets them on fire.
  
  
  
• Fighting style: I fight better in groups. This doesn't mean that I have to have allies. No, no, I'm perfectly capable of fighting multiple enemies at once. My style focuses on deception. I try to get my enemies to attack their allies, or I try to distract them from my allies so they can get good shots in. If I try to fight someone one-on-one I'd probably just run away because I don't think I could win that fight.
  
  I'm extremely creative and extremely smart (and humble too). I'm great at coming up with strategies for almost any given situation and if they don't work it's no big deal. I'm great at adapting to any situation too. I work well under pressure, even if I don't really enjoy it, so coming up with new plans on the fly is no big deal. My plans are generally weird, so most of my enemies don't see them coming.
  
  Of course, if things start to look bad, I'll just put up a smoke screen of feathers and run. Or maybe I'll make myself invisible. It depends on the situation. Point is, if things get bad I get the hell out of there because I don't want to die. I'm extremely fast, so I could probably out run most people. I bet people like Aya and Youmu would be able to out run me, but if I ever raced them I would be able to keep up.
  
  
• Strengths
  
  • I'm a great strategist and I can come up with plans on the fly.
    
  • Very fast
    
  • It's like almost impossible to get illusions to work on me. I can see through about 95% of them since I have oh so much experience with them myself. You have to like, be better at them than I am in order to fool me.
  
  
• Weaknesses
  
  • Physically weak, my punches and kicks won't hurt anyone that much.
    
  • Incapable of fighting one-on-one
    
  • Can't take a punch

History: Wait, let me get this straight. It wasn't enough to tell you people about myself, but you want to know my whole life story too? Wow that's creepy. Geez, you're not only jerks, but creepy stalkers as well? Why do I want to be here again? Well, whatever. Here goes.

One day I existed. I can't really say "born" because that gives the wrong idea of what happened. For example, I have always looked like this. I was never a baby, I never physically "grew up" or anything like that. I also never really had any parents. Y'see, like every demon ever I was created by the goddess Shinki along with everything else in Makai and Makai itself. Now imagine having as many siblings as there were people in Gensokyo. Yeah, it's kind of weird.

So I did stuff. I "existed" and for as long as I could remember I only wanted people to know this. Now, because I wasn't born like the rest of you I knew from the day I came into existence that I was an illusionist. I didn't need to discover this, I didn't need to wait for something to happen, I didn't know why but I just knew. However, Shinki is as much of a jerk as you people and didn't give me instant mastery over my power, so I did have to learn how to control it. It took like forever. Hell, I still haven't fully mastered it 5000 years later. Anyway, as I started interacting with people I learned something that changed my life forever.

People suck.

Seriously, other people suck. They never cease to piss me off. I mean, they had the audacity to do stuff I didn't like! They all thought differently and I couldn't understand it! It was so annoying! So, I isolated myself from everyone, but that desire to prove my existence never went away. I suppressed it though.

I did everything on my own. I found food on my own. I found entertainment on my own. I practiced my magic alone. Everything...I did everything alone.

Then I got lonely.

There was always something missing. I was about 10 when I went into seclusion. While that may seem young to humans keep in mind that I didn't have to develop like they do; I was already a full fledged "adult" from creation. Ten years was more than enough time for me to grow cynical and pessimistic. However, it was also long enough for me to develop memories. It was long enough for me to realize that my greatest joys and my greatest pains stemmed from the same thing: people. I came to the conclusion that they were simply like bad puns: horrible and you hate yourself forever for laughing at them, but you can't help but love them anyway.

I mean, the things I remember liking the most were things like that one time Yurika slipped and fell while carrying a bunch of pies, or that one time I tricked Reika into thinking that Hayabasa had a crush on her. Or those times telling stories with all the people I knew. My fondest memories always involved people. My most hated memories always involved people. I didn't like feeling like crap, so I decided that I was going to figure out how people worked.

I honestly can't tell if I succeeded or not. I can read people pretty well; to the point that some people have asked me if I can read minds. But if it's one thing I've learned from studying people is that they make no sense and that anyone that claims to understand them is a huge liar. Seriously, as I began to study people I realized that I didn't know anything about myself either. I was insecure about it for awhile, but then I realized it just wasn't worth worrying about.

Nothing was worth worrying about.

Have you seen how many people are out there? How can you possibly hope to make any difference in the world at all? Have you read anything about history? Any progress that's made is always destroyed. There's no point in doing anything; the world will just wash it all away as it has for centuries. I'm glad I figured this out before I worked my ass off trying to do something important. Slowly nothing mattered to me anymore and bits of myself became more apparent. I had no sense of morality. While I'm not exactly sadistic, it doesn't bother me when people get hurt. I just don't *care* either way. Slowly, I began to detach myself from the world again and my apathy grew stronger. All that mattered was me. That was it.

Sadly, this had many problems. While I was the only one that really mattered people got pissed if I did mean things to them. I couldn't just take the shiny object because the store owner would beat me up for example. I understood and adapted. I began to think about the consequences of my actions and I quickly developed the ability to think things through very quickly. I could see all the benefits, all the consequences, what my "opponent" was likely to do...everything in the blink of an eye. I didn't understand people, but I understood them. It was an interesting paradox.

A few thousand years passed and I became extremely skilled with my illusions. I noticed that some person was offering a tour of this place called "Gensokyo." I was bored and it sounded interesting, so I made myself invisible and tagged along. Little did I know that I wasn't going to be able to return home after that.

Gensokyo was kind of cool. There was stuff and it was nice to see it, but Makai was better and I was pretty eager to return home after the tour was done. However, we soon found out that Makai was sealed by this bitch of a shrine maiden. I was pissed. However, if this girl had enough power to defeat the friggin goddess that created an entire dimension on her own then there was no way I was going to be able to beat her even if I really wanted to. I opted for the next best solution and bummed out at her shrine and drank all her sake.

But she didn't seem to mind and that got boring after awhile, so I decided to wander Gensokyo. I didn't actually think that I'd be able to find a new home, but it was more interesting than just sitting at the shrine. One day I ran into this guy. I can't tell you his name because he'd like kill me if I did, but he had this crazy idea about overthrowing the shrine maiden and something or other. I didn't really care about the details; I just heard "overthrow the shrine maiden" and stopped listening. I was totally in.

However, I don't hold grudges oddly enough, so I kind of stopped caring about this Reimu person after about a week. I had better things to distract me. His ideas were actually pretty cool and I was actually pretty excited to see them go through. I knew someone would eventually fuck everything up, but doing this was certainly more interesting than doing nothing. I suppose you could say he was actually able to tap into my more optimistic side. I may be That Guy With No Morals to the people that don't know me, but after awhile I actually had good intentions. It started out as a mission to get back at Reimu, but now I actually want to help the world out. It's weird. I told you people make no sense.

So, I joined this organization when it was just starting out apparently. The leader wanted me to act as a proxy for him because he was too paranoid to show his face. He also wanted to make his organization out to be incredibly eeeevil because he figured it would attract more mindless people that were easy to manipulate. I actually agreed and went along with it and lo and behold we were right. The organization grew and after awhile I rarely showed my face to anyone. The leader would only show his face to a trusted few (I can only think of five people including myself), those trusted few would only show themselves to a few people and those few people (we call them generals) would send out the orders to the minions. It was pretty intersting.

My main role was espionage and information gathering. My power and my people expertise fit that role perfectly. Though, occasionally I would have to do nasty things to get people to join us (this one satori comes to mind immediately). Anyway, I still work for this guy and we're still waiting for the right moment to move all our plans into action. Watch out Gensokyo, we're going to make you sweet~

[Genshuku]

I'm looking at the abilities weird, but I have no idea why so I can't count it against you.

And because I heard Augen gave the OK last night...



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