Junko Monolayre

JUNKO REIKI MONOLAYRE
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ABOUT

Name/Aliases: Junko Reiki Monolayre. Answers to Junko or Jun. Whenever he's on missions, he's codenamed "Shox"
Sex: Male
Age: 18
Skin: Pale
Eyes: Sea green
Hair: Black. Long and worn in a low ponytail
Species: Fox Demon with various animal traits (shark and possibly bat) passed through his father's side.
Height: 5'11, nearly six feet. He's still got an inch or two left to grow.
Weight/Build: Slender, but muscular, particularly around the upper body. He is stronger than he looks; he would have to be to fly with his wings.

Physical Differences [from humans]: He has large black fox ears at the top of his head which are tipped with white. To match this is a white-tipped bushy fox tail which he typically allows to hang loosely behind him.

He also has a pair of very large membranous wings not unlike what you'd see on a bat, and they sustain flight quite well. He usually harnesses or hides them with his shadows. Sometimes both.

In addition, Junko has three long, spike like protrusions on his lower arms. They're not terribly sharp on the edges, but you wouldn't want to get poked by them anyway.

Probably most jarring is the fact that Junko's teeth are all pointed and sharklike. He doesn't have rows, but if he loses one, another will take its place. Also they suck though? He has a hard time eating normally, and it's only with MUCH practice that he is able to talk around them without a lisp, or without biting his own tongue.


POWERS/ABILITIES

Spear: Junko is trained to use a spear, and he's pretty creative with it. His particular spear is easy to carry, since it extends and retracts at his will, from a full length pole spear to something no longer than 2 and a half feet, including the blade. Never find yourself on the other end of his blade. He's quick, accurate, and has a lot of drive behind his usage.

Flight: Exactly what it sounds like. Junko can fly with these wings, though he doesn't have the endurance he would like and can only keep aloft for short bursts. If he pushes himself, he can keep aloft for about an hour before dropping from exhaustion. When there's warm air, Junko can soar more easily and that will ease some of his burden, but if he's forced to flutter in bat fashion, he'll tire very quickly.

True Form: Junko's true form is a large black fox with white points (ears, tail, and half marking on his legs) as well as white on his face and belly. He can control the size, but the unrestrained form is that of a one-tailed beast just a bit bigger than a wolf. The spikes carry over, but the wings do not unless he expends energy to make them manifest. He usually doesn't because it...looks silly.

Semi Amphibious Form: The eponymous form known as "Shox", his alternate form consists of the upper body of a fox, and the lower body of a shark. The front half has foxlike forelegs, though the paws are slightly larger and have webbing between the digits. The spines on his arms carry over, but are able to be flattened back, and have some webbing for when they are flared. It provides better control of turning when used right.

His head is generally the same, but the ears are long and laid back in order to make streamlined swimming easier. As a result, his hearing is hampered. On each cheek are 3 slitlike gills and as he swims, his mouth hangs slightly open to allow for breathing. From between his shoulderblades rises a dorsal fin.

The latter half of his body is a shark tail, similar to a mako, dark gray with white underbelly.

It's in this form that Junko eats, since his jagged teeth make it hard to manage normal food.

Shadows: Junko is a budding master of shadows--he just needs more experience and practice! These powers are his specialty, and can be used in several ways; stealth, illusions, and creating tangible familiars. Jun is terrible at the latter, but is extremely skilled in using his shadows for stealth. One example is his ability to hide parts of his body from sight. He will often create a glamour over his ears, tail, and wings in order to hide them from sight, and on that same note, he can also change his appearance by creating a layer of shadows over himself (such as to change eye or skin color). As it is only an illusion, his extra limbs and appendages are still able to be touched.

Concerning illusions, these are not possessed of tangible form, and while he can influence his environment within a certain space, it's not touchable. The sensation of touch can be simulated only by fooling the mind in this particular illusion, and he's not a master of it anymore than he is of creating solid shadow familiars.

Even his mastery over illusions and glamour are fallible; they can be distracted if his concentration is broken or he becomes enraged. Surprise can also be a factor on whether he drops his glamour or fails--as usual--at maintaining familiars.


STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES

+ Good at stealth. This includes lying, to a degree.
+ Stronger than he looks
+ Loyal to a cause he believes is right
+ Good-hearted
+ Has a sense of humor

+/- He's a quiet person
+/- Driven
+/- Mostly level headed

- Aggressive during mealtimes. Do not enter the pool, friends.
- When pushed, he can become blinded by his own anger
- His endurance could use work
- Jack of all his trades, master of none. He still needs more time
- Prone to losing control of shadow familiars
- Unsure of himself and his position in the world



BASIC INFO

His World: Junko's world is not all that different from our own, but where he's from, individuals with hereditary or engineered abilities and powers are facing both persecution and inhuman treatment at the hands of those who do not value them as humans, or even as sentient creatures. Monsters, spiritual entities, and everything in between are now laid bare to the general population of ungifted human beings, and the assimilation of both is little more than a pipe dream. For his part, Junko was orphaned at the house of a man working for an organization meant to free gifted individuals from unethical living situations. He too became part of that secret organization due to his special circumstance as a very rare breed of spiritual entity, and was trained to help the cause.

As a highly-trained (but young) operative of the TENEBRAE organization, it's been his duty to help people like himself from awful situations, give them a means to assimilate and live in peace, and/or rehabilitate the abused through a sister organization meant to help gifted individuals without the ability to reconcile their lives alone.

At the point he is taken, Junko has recently turned 18, and learned that his closest friend was captured while attempting to uncover a pair of schools which TENEBRAE has spent years attempting to shut down; Nightstealers and Windshakers Academies.


His Personality: Junko has always been smart enough to know what's going on around him and that it isn't right. He never forgot that he was adopted by a human but that he never was one. His circumstances have therefore shaped his personality.

As a child, he was both standoffish and a selective mute, not trusting anyone that he didn't know, which included his surrogate father. The standoffishness faded as he was assimilated into the human's life as his only true family, and the TENEBRAE organization became an extension of that family. However, while his mutism faded away, Junko remained generally quiet. This is really only because he is always thinking of something or other, and those thoughts are never happy. While he isn't openly negative or depressed, he is...troubled. And curious. His curiosity extends to almost anything he interacts with, and he's always got a question or two in mind when faced with something new. But a lot of his questions are not with simple answers, and those are the ones he holds close to his heart; who is he, where is his family, why did they abandon him?

As an adolescent, Junko tends to keep to himself. However, he's no longer so introverted, and he's grown more social and mildly conversational with age. He even smiles, which is something to be said given the fact that he always has his thoughts stuck in heavy places. He's pretty happy, all things considered. To anyone who can look past the shallow veneer...there's a lost young man with an uncertain purpose and a wish to understand who and what he is.