Miyako (character)

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General Overview
Name: Miyako

Guild: The Red House

Position: Dominatrix, Assassin

Age: Approximately 18 years old.

Gender: Female

Element: Water

Physical Appearance: Young, and clearly of water tribe descent, Miyako is much like any other courtesan of the Red House- beautiful and deadly. She has the classic darker skin and blue eyes that give away those descended from water tribe lines. She wears a chain with a lock as a pendant on it. for a necklace.

Skills, History, Notes, etc.
Skills: Water whip (expert), stealth training, resist truth, use and concealing of hidden knives, and basic waterbending. She is of prodigy status.

Goals: Master water bending, learn healing, master stealth and combat skills.

Personality: Miyako is, on the surface, a bit aloof. She clearly holds most people at arm's length, and rarely, if ever, shows affection toward anyone or anything. There is also a sort of arrogance she speaks and carries herself with. One of the few people she will publicly speak highly of is Hong Sheng, her guild mistress.

Inwardly, she is controlling, ruthless, and calculating. Few things rouse her passions, and she doesn't have many "friends", only associates. She purposely and deliberately holds others at arm's length, and rather wearily. In battle, she kills as quickly and efficiently as possible and doesn't waste time on lengthy speeches or grandiose entrances (not that she doesn't know hwo to put on a show). She doesn't care much about colateral damage, as long as the opponent turns up dead. It is not that she is without compassion or other such things, but she has little to no idea how to show them. She is manipulative, and will use anything and everything at her disposal to accomplish her goals. She has, recently, shown a tendency toward indulgence. Possibly out of the realization that she is now able to do that with her newfound lucrative position.

While she is not, necessarily, a model citizen, she does have morals. And she will not hesitate to act if something she deems as unacceptable is occuring and it is possible and prudent to stop it.

Miyako has a few triggers due to her history, including being physically struck or touched without explicit permission from her- unless it is completely necessary to save her life. This will trigger a rather violent rage, particularly if warnings are ignored.

In her business dealings, she is extremely professional and does enjoy her "day job", if you can call it that. Due to her past, she is only able to truly connect with others through violence, and being a professional Domme allows her to experience an aspect of control she's never had before. She keeps her appointments very rigidly, and is extremely organized with it.

As for her other job, she is very particular about the contracts she takes. And any "unacceptable" contracts will be rejected. Anything particularly heinous will be brought immediately to the Red Queen.

History- pre RP:

Miyako woke up about four years ago in one of the guildless districts with no memory of what had happened over the past fourteen years of her life. She wandered a bit before a horrible case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time lead her to run into Risotto Nero, the right hand man of Kron. Having just killed his last slave, and finding himself in need of a new one, he took the fourteen year old and subjected her to years of abuse- leading to much physical and psychological damage.

One night, Kron called Nero out to deal with a rival gang. Out of sheer desparation, the waterbender used some water she'd been given to drink to break the padlock and chain on her cell. She pocketed them, at the time for reasons she couldn't explain, and left. Most assumed she was sent on an errand, and knew better than to touch Nero's property, so she was left alone until she stumbled, with still unhealed wounds and a mess in general, into the Red District. Thankfully, the first person she ran into happened to be the Red Queen, who took pity on her and took the girl in.

While the physical scars and wounds were easily healed, the psychological ones would take far longer. Miyako was aware that Nero demanded to take her back, however was persuaded to leave. Since then, she has settled into the Red House working as a dominatrix, and eventually taking jobs as a hired blade on the side once she realized her aptitude for it. While gaining her strength, she did begin to train in hopes that one day she could exact revenge upon Nero for what he did to her. However, he died before that could occur. While she is slightly disappointed she wasn't the one to kill him, she is relieved that he's dead.

RP History:

Miyako found herself under the employment of the Quian conglomerate to eliminate Hebbi Hijeri, the boss of the Venom trade. As it had been causing multiple problems for her guild and the rest of the city, and the price was right, Miyako quickly agreed and went to find her contacts- a ragtag group of waterbenders from the trader's union, and a woman named Sai.

From there, the group attempted to infiltrate the Venom trade, and though they were unsuccessful, largely due to one of their associates being reckless, they managed to fight their way out. Miyako destroyed a good portion of the vats by flinging a grenade into one of them. Despite escaping successfully after defeating the fiendish Master Wu (with some information to boot), two of their own were infected with venom. Thankfully, they managed to cleanse their bodies of the drug before further harm was done.

Later, after a messy assassination job and sustaining injuries, Miyako's allies managed to kill Hebbi. They, and Miyako, received a fairly sizable paycheck.

Miyako was then called for a rescue mission- retrieve a fruit from the Youkei island to save Firelord Hotaru. It was there that she met Mako, Kai, Yukina, and Takagan. That night, in prepartion for the trials to come, she sought to learn healing, which she picked up on rather quickly and became rather adept at it before the night was out. It was then that they sailed to the Island, and quickly found themselves neck-deep in trouble.

After terribly botching their trip to the Garden, the party went to the Bamboo forest, where they met a pair of immortals- Kaguya and Mokou.

After training a bit under Kaguyu with Sai and Koda, Miyako rested up and continued with their journey. They went to the mountain, where the met an Oni. It was there that Miyako heard the call of Higa- the steam spirit who had been trapped in the hot springs. Upon completing Higa's challenge, she fused with the spirit, donning his form for the battle with Onibaba.

Unfortunately, due to a teammate's botched effort at freeing the mist spirit within Onibaba's lamp, Miyako was ripped out of spirit form and her powers rendered dormant. It was then that she was crushed by a rock thrown at her by the Onibaba, rendering her unconscious for the duration of the fight.

From there, the group followed the tree to the Laje, where they assisted two goddesses in regaining their oasis. It was also here that Miyako learned she is a clone of the late Empress Raylah, evil blood bender monster extraordinaire.

It was also there that they finally caught the demon tree, allowing Takagan to complete his end of his bargain with Yukari. From there, Firelord Hotaru was restored, destroying Nue Hijeri with the aid of Mako.

The heroes, having completed their mission, returned to Ba Sing Se.