Rikka
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-- Rikka
A runaway human teenager/raven hybrid that ran away from home with her best friend Niko in hopes of eventually finding a more peaceful place to live a new life together. Comes to the Crossroads in hopes of finding a way to lift a curse that’s slowly killing Niko.
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BackstoryRikka grew up in an emotionally and physically abusive home, with both of her parents using their second daughter (her older sister she barely knows was in college by the time she was born and doesn’t talk to her parents anymore for some reason) taking their as their emotional punching bag. Especially her alcoholic mother. Rikka from a young age was vigilant, aggressive and often got into fights with other kids at school once she started getting bullied for being helpless and weak. She hated school. “Home” was worse and she had no one, and hardly a reason to live. Until in middle school, something as small as losing her science textbook led to some genuine fortune for her. Rikka left a science textbook in class one day and didn’t notice, but a boy in her class did. He wanted to return it to her, but on the way got cornered by Rikka’s main bully. Rikka noticed him from across the hallway and walked towards him. He attacked when she got close, but she just about managed to fight back and scare him off but not without getting several injuries. She then noticed something odd. Her injuries began healing. Looking behind her, she noticed the boy casting a healing spell on her and holding her textbook. Rikka didn’t know how to react. Was someone actually showing her kindness? Both her and the boy she later found out was named Niko were sent to detention. Rikka for fighting, Niko for using magic on school grounds. There, Rikka showed some gratitude to Niko. They began talking, and realised they had a lot in common. Before long, both had their first ever real friend. Overtime, their home lives started to get even worse. In Rikka’s case, conflicts began escalating even faster and one night after venting about her fear for her own safety, Niko proposed something that sounded insane at first, but Rikka would in time agree to: Running away. Despite Rikka’s initial fears of having to live on the street, the worse things got for her (even one point trying to get the authorities involved which didn’t work) the more she desired to just escape her hellish life and start anew. If she had her friend with her, then it would be worth the risks. Niko made a plan, and they left in the middle of the night with the clothes on their back and what they could fit in their pockets and fled to a nearby town. They conserved every penny and piece of food they had. Having to steal at times. Even with how difficult their new lives were, they still found a sense of hope that one day, they’d finally be able to just live somewhere they could consider a true home. At some point, Rikka was approached by a woman whilst Niko was inside a shop to buy her some food. He sensed something was off outside but ran out only to find that Rikka was gone. She had gone with the woman who told her she could get her and Niko some food and supplies if she followed her which she agreed to out of desperation. Turns out, the woman was using a disguise and was actually a part of a mysterious, deadly cult that used humans as an energy source for their machinery and as test subjects. Targeting especially those they perceived helpless and whom not many would care about if they died.
PersonalityAggressive, often close minded, stubborn but loyal. Rikka’s determined to achieve her goals and there’s little she wouldn’t do for them. She is deeply loyal to Niko, and has a hard time trusting anyone else. She often assumes the worst in others and is always on guard around them, especially knowing she’s in a fighting tournament and how she’s been treated in the past. While Rikka often comes off as tough and aggressive, most of her anger is a mask for her sadness and fear. Rikka may also be judgemental depending on the opponent’s motive. This doesn’t just apply to those with morally questionable motives, but ones she may consider shallow, vain or towards those with no real motive at all. She has a general distrust of those in positions of authority and who come from wealth and affluence, as well as those who do claim to be paragons of morality. It’s hard for her to feel and show empathy, but she doesn’t lack it, it’s difficult for her since it’s something she hasn’t exactly learned to show or have much of. She’s always had to fight back against most people that weren’t Niko, who she's willing to show a more vulnerable and childlike side around without her mask of toughness. |
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Abilities
[Cloak]
Rikka can create a veil of shadow around her and in a short surrounding area to make her less visible to her opponents. Great for stealth and surprise attacks. (She tends to put her hood up before she does this though that is not required to cast the spell.)
[Shadow Spikes]
Rikka can create spikes made out of the shadows around her or made by her to both come out of terrain or be used as a projectile. The spike's length can vary dramatically, and she can fire them in any path or direction and change their trajectory if they’re in midair.
[Dark Swamp]
Creates a small area on the ground that does slow sharp damage whenever someone steps in it. Their vision is also darkened when within this area.
[Dark Forest]
Similar to Dark Swamp, but this one causes tree-like spikes to quickly grow out of the shadowy ground to attack and stab opponents caught within the area.
[Shadow Ball]
A quick, basic small-medium shadow ball projectile. Cannot be angled once fired and will move in a straight line.
[Theft]
Rikka’s agility and time on the street make her good at stealing resources without people noticing, in Crossroads she may use this skill to steal items and weapons from other opponents to use against them.
[Flight]
Of course, her wings let her fly. She can match the top speed of Ravens at 48 mph. They’re also retractable.
[Fighting Style]
Rikka has zero regard for technique and grace when fighting. She will try to win by any means necessary and isn’t afraid to trick or steal from opponents to do so. She is not formally trained at all, and tends to rush in to overwhelm opponents quickly, occasionally flying away to dodge enemy attacks or using Cloak for stealth. When she’s particularly angry, she can fight more akin to a wild animal relying on pure instinct. She also may attempt to win by stealing opponent’s weapons or tag, but often she’ll discard a weapon once she realises she can’t use it well.
Strengths
- Determination and grit - Rikka’s determination to save Niko is basically impossible to break and she can tough through some serious pain for it.
- Speed. Rikka is physically above average and quite fast and nimble. She uses this to avoid attacks and steal items from opponents and has great reflexes.
- Willing to take risks if needed.
- Cloak gives her good stealth and allows her to confuse, surprise attack or hit and run an opponent whilst they can’t see her in the shadow.
- Flight gives her high mobility.
- Being good at stealing without anyone noticing at first means she can fairly reliably steal an opponent’s tag if it’s not well hidden. Flying makes it easier to keep it on her, so this is one of her main strategies for winning a matc
Weaknesses
- Impulsive.
- A tendency to assume the worst in others and subpar listening skills makes her sometimes not listen to Niko’s (often intelligent) strategy suggestions especially when the opponent has really riled her up. It also makes it hard (but not impossible) for her to empathise with her opponents.
- Her aggression and short fuse makes her hard to think clearly and makes it easy for her to be tricked by particularly clever opponents.
- Rikka tends to tough through pain to a point that’s dangerous. Unless Niko is directly healing her, she’ll rarely take a moment to catch her breath in battle even when she’s able.
- She has a limited amount of magic to use per fight, if it runs out she can only rely on her flight and physical attacks.
- Her wings are weak to arrows and bullets.
- Flying takes a lot of energy out of her fairly quickly.
Gallery
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Author's Notes
- Rikka will usually use only the shortened version of words when talking (I’d, I’m, couldn’t etc) and sometimes may combine words to make her dialogue come off as if its being spoken quickly.
- Rikka’s expressions and gestures tend to get more subtle when she’s showing contentment and genuine fear.
- As far as seriously injuring/killing is concerned, I don’t want either to be too seriously hurt in Round 1 and killing is off limits 100% too. It’s very unlikely I’d allow it if I were to make it to later Rounds.
- Rikka swears and may call some particularly enraging opponents by nicknames (you can be creative with these, the only one I’ve currently come up with for certain is “Bluey-Demon” for Baxter.) She can also have multiple names for one opponent.
- Not pictured, but her fleece and shirt have slits for the wings too. The fleece one was cut out by her, and the ones on her shirt are thin oval shaped.
- Feel free to make Rikka’s raven wings as simple or stylised as you like and draw them however you like from the front and back.
- Rikka can’t retract only one wing at a time, if one of the zips on her jacket was closed and the other open, she wouldn’t be able to spread her wings at all.
- Though I didn’t heavily worldbuild (since they are OCT made characters) hybrids like RIkka and Niko are fairly normal, though you may get teased or bullied depending on what animal you have parts of. As well as their respective shadow and light magic, it's just banned in some places. (Schools, shops, cinemas.)
- Rikka’s jacket was canonically stolen hours before the events of the audition took place.