Nisha Miyako: Grave Class Application.

Name: Nisha Miyako.

Age: 19.

Height: 5’1/2’’.

Species: Bubak.

Abilities:

- Reaping.
- Infants’ Cry. 

Familiars:

-Toffee-Apple:
        - Psychic connection.
        - Assistance-based abilities.
        - The smarter of the two.
        - The weaker and more cautious of the two.
-Pumpkin-Spice:
        - Psychic connection.
        - Combat-based abilities.
        - The more impulsive of the two.
        - The stronger and more reckless of the two.

Academic Information

Level:

Advanced: Third Year. (Grave Class).
    Colour: White. 

Current Classes:

    -       LIN 403.

Passed Classes:

    -       BST 101. 
    -       BST 102.
    -       BST 103. 
    -       LIN 103.
    -       LIN 202. 
    -       LIN 303.

Experience:

    -       410

Roommate: 

    -       N/A
 

Personal Information

Likes:

    -       Sweet things and candies, and is a huge fan of all things sugary.

    -       Night time, because it makes her feel at ease, and because the Bubak are stronger at night time than they are in the day, - and the same goes for when they are in the shadows rather than direct sunlight.

    -       Her cloak and hat, which she safely keeps in her room, though she still wears from time-to-time.

    -      Her scarf, which she received from her lover, Rowan Mori.

    -       Her pet black and grey twin-tailed kittens from her family, - they remind her of home.

    -       Her family, reminiscing of the farmlands that were her home before deciding to join the Academy, even though her home will always be where her loved-ones are.

    -       Animals, plants and creatures, regardless of if they are magical or not.

    -       Interesting new things.

    -       Antique-looking-jewellery and Steampunk-styled things, even though she doesn't own many things that fit into those styles.

    -       Sewing and weaving.

    -       Cooking.

Dislikes:

    -       People who try to take off her hat, cloak, or her scarf.

    -       People who talk badly about nature, and who do things to harm it.

    -       Anybody who dares do or say anything bad about her kittens.

    -       Having to explain all the time what a Bubak is, and that there is more than one species of Bogeyman.

    -       Being forced to go out in direct sunlight, - it makes her feel ill and weaker.

    -       People who comment on how short she is; because she is quite short in her home country, and her small frame and body-type doesn’t help that, either.

    -       Bullies.

    -      Anything that speaks badly of Rowan.

Fears:

    -       Fire: being around it, seeing it, hearing it, being anywhere near it.

    -       Being bullied.

    -       Being all alone forever.

    -       Losing her kittens, Pumpkin-Spice (the black one) and Toffee-Apple (the grey one).

    -       People laughing at her kittens’ names.

    -       People laughing at her.

    -       Losing herself to her more predatory self around the time of the full moon and reaping. 

    -      Rowan getting injured or worse, or if he leaves her.

Strengths:

    -       Blending in with her surroundings: Being similar to a wallflower, she likes not standing out too much unless she has to.

    -       Being naturally liked by animals: As a scarecrow-like creature, animals are generally okay with her, apart from birds, birds don’t like her so much, which is kind of sad in her opinion.

    -       Having little senses to hot and cold weather: Being what she is, she is rarely affected by humid and freezing temperatures, apart from occasionally becoming more limp or brittle, depending on what the temperatures are like. 

    -       Can understand souls and can talk/interact with them, and so can speak to both animals and plants via their souls. She makes her materials out of souls, plants specifically, because she doesn't like reaping human or animal souls, but only if she gets the plant's permission first. 

    -        Has a psychic connection which allows her and her familiars to communicate by talking to each others' minds. She was taught this skill in her Magical Linguistics class.

Weaknesses:

    -       Her fear of fire: She has a crippling fear of fire, and so anything even related to it, such as simple smoke or embers, can cause her to break down in fear.

    -       Her love for her kittens: It might seem strange, but, she’s so passionately fond of her beloved kittens, that if anything bad happens to them, or if she becomes worried for them, she’s barely able to function in normal day-to-day tasks until she is sure that they are okay.

    -       Blending in with her surroundings: Although it is one of her strengths, it is also one of her weaknesses, as she is actually a very sociable, if not for her introverted personality.

    -       Her introverted and easily-intimidated personality: this stops her from feeling so easy around big groups of people, and, despite desiring to be more sociable, she finds it difficult, and tries to cover her fear with stubbornness and with a dead-pan personality. Despite this, she has tried to work on it over the years to make her better at socializing.

Goals:

    -       To be able to try and overcome her fears and finally make some friends.

    -       To learn more about the topics which she is interested in.

    -       To figure out what she might wish to do with her future.

    -       To learn how to grow more as a person.

Personality:

    -       Introverted,

    -       Shy,

    -       Easily-lonely,

    -       Nervous around people.

Despite seeming to most as an unsociable and very dead-pan girl, Nisha, - or Niako, which is the nickname her family gave her, - is actually just very shy and overly-easy to make worry about just about anything. Even if she doesn’t seem to show it, she always has a lot on her mind that’s causing her stress, whether it is classes, social things, her kittens, or any number of other possibilities, and this can cause her to be a little on-edge sometimes if people start to irritate her. Generally being quiet and keeping to herself, she finds it easiest to blend into the background, which means that it’s easy for her to walk around unnoticed, though this can sometimes get her into trouble over misunderstandings about eavesdropping and spying, when in reality she would have never tried anything of the sort. This does however help to satisfy her occasional cravings for being mischievous and tricky, which is a trait of nearly all Bubak.

History:

Growing up in her home-land, she and her family owned a farm and some land, making their living as farmers, and offering up their woven cloths around the times after the full moon, using the rest for clothing for special occasions. Her family’s farm was mainly one of growing the plants and vegetables that the family thrived upon and also sold, but because of their types of produce, to try and combat the chances of rats and vermin, they also bred twin-tailed demon cats from Japan. Although Nisha has never been quite sure as to why they had cats from Japan, she’s never bothered to delve too deeply into the subject, simply feeling happy to have been able to be around such interesting creatures.

Her family’s farm was one of a couple that populated the area, with a near-by village being occupied only by other Bubak, which meant that she managed to get time around her own species, - which was a good thing, - but because of her small size in comparison to them, she was often bullied, and was assumed to be weak because of her size, so she was shunned and oppressed by the others her own age, apart from for one girl, who was of the only non-Bubak family in the village, - a family of Aka Manto. She was also teased frequently for being a “toilet ghost”, but never in the same way as Nisha, since unlike the petite Bubak girl, she held her ground against her tormentors.
She became Nisha’s first friend, (other than the cats, of course,) and they grew close.
On Nisha’s sixteenth birthday, her parent’s told her about an academy far away which specialized in dark and forbidden arts, - but mainly, was a place for creatures of magic, like herself, and offered to pay for her to travel there and attempt to apply, if she so wished. She said yes, almost instantly, but the closer she came to leaving, the sadder and more withdrawn she got at the ideas of missing everybody she’d ever known.
As a leaving gift, her family gave her a new hat and cloak that they’d all helped to weave at the last full moon, as well as two kittens from one of the cat’s litters, a small black male kitten, and a small light and dark grey female kitten; brothers and sisters of the same litter. Treasuring them as she left, she traveled to the academy, in an attempt to be able to join it and try to work towards her personal goals, and she never traveled far from her kittens, and she was very rarely ever seen without her cloak and hat on.

After three years at the academy, and after passing, - and failing, - multiple classes over the years, Nisha had grown slowly as a person, finding herself a boyfriend along the way. Achieving the level of Grave Class, she was filled with a great sense of pride, which she used to focus herself more on her studies, giving her a new sense of determination. Her kittens, now older, had started to develop their adult abilities, as they were in their teenage stage of life now. Due to this, the Bubak girl had to try and fire-proof everything she owned, which also meant that her beloved cloak and hat had to be stored safely away in her room, to reduce the chances of it bursting into flames.
She was very sad about this, so Rowan, her partner, gave her a scarf, which she now treasures as much as her cloak, hat, and kittens, and she only takes it off if she's wearing her cloak, because it can't fit underneath it.
She now works towards the aim to complete all the familiars lessons in the Magical Linguistics classes, with the aim to earn a degree in the subject, which she tackles with resolve to always try her best, and attempt and make her teacher proud.

Misc Information

    -       The “Bubak” are the Czech’s native species of “Bogeyman”, and usually appear as a scarecrow. It can cry just like an innocent, unprotected baby of any species to lure its victims to their deaths, or their unlucky ‘victims’ into some sort of prank. It is said that when the moon is full, the Bubak weave cloth from the souls of those it has killed, and these materials are, - when made well, - highly valuable among the right types of black markets in their native lands to ‘monsters’ and humans alike. It is rumoured that, once, the strongest Bubak led a cart pulled by large black demon cats as it moved around and terrorised the people who it preyed upon.

    -       “Nisha” means "night" in Sanskrit, and “Miyako” is from Japanese 美 (mi) "beautiful", 夜 (ya) "night" and 子 (ko) "child", and the nickname of Niako is simply just a mix of her first and last name, (but I thought it sounded kind of cool).

    -       Her body is actually a strange mix between straw (like a scarecrow) and normal flesh, which is an odd mutation that comes with being a Bubak. Among her own kind, this is fine, but, she feels as if she would appear strange to others who aren't like her, which gives her a very lower-self-esteem than most, and so she usually tries to cover as much of her body where the change from flesh and straw is apparent. 

    -       Her wings sprout from her back only when she wants to use them, and disintegrate away when they’re no longer needed, - as if they’re instantly rotting and turning into dust, - just without the bad smells and the piles of dust that would be left after. Because of this, she can choose to fly whenever she wants to, but it takes a lot of energy and is actually very painful to grow and destroy them, since they’d have to physically burst from her body and have the wounds heal over again for a few days. Because of this, she generally doesn't like to use them unless it’s as self-defense to escape and as a last resort. 

    - Since Bubak are supposed to be strongest at the times of the full moon, they're, (or at least the species of bubak that Nisha belongs to,) are also more violent and more towards their predatory states around this time, hence Nisha's fear of losing herself to the blood-lust and soul-lust that would lead her to "reaping" ( - that is, reaping souls of the living).

Relationships: 


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Rowan Mori:   
Rowan is a really nice man. He's kind, gentle, and cute and we eat sweets together sometimes. Even though he doesn't attend the Academy anymore, we keep in touch and get to meet up sometimes when we're not busy. He means the world and more to me, and I'm the luckiest girl on the planet to be the subject of his affections. I'm really glad that I met Rowan... He's my best friend, and I'm so happy to call him my lover... 

Roleplay Information. 

Chatroom Availability:

    -       Would probably mainly use either DA Notes or comments.

Script Sample:

Pumpkin-Spice, stop mewing at me like that, I’ve just fed you, and I refuse to do so again or you’ll get fat and ill. *glares irritably at the small black kitten, tickling his chin with her index finger gently.* Toffee-Apple, please explain to your brother why I’m not going to feed him again so soon, he only ever thinks with his stomach. *She goes back to reading her magazine while continuing to pet the kitten’s chin while his sister mews at him sleepily.*

Paragraph Sample:

She sighs deeply, staring over her magazine at the small black cat at her feet. The kitten mews loudly and paws at her legs, waging his tails slowly. “Pumpkin-Spice, stop mewing at me like that, I’ve just fed you, and I refuse to do so again or you’ll get fat and ill.” She sighs again as he continues to mew at her, louder this time, and she waves him away with her hand, petting the grey kitten on her lap. She glares at Pumpkin-Spice irritably, ticking his chin with her index finger as she turns another page of her magazine. Glancing down, she softly speaks to the kitten on her lap, “Toffee-Apple, please explain to your brother why I’m not going to feed him again so soon, he only ever thinks with his stomach.” The grey kitten yawns drowsily, mewing to her brother while Nisha continues to tickle his chin, and she attempts to go back to her reading, hoping that Toffee-Apple would be able to persuade her brother to be quiet.