Hanabi Raion [Updated]

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Hanabi Raion

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Other Names: Ray
Epithet: "Spine Devil"
Height: 5'8"
Build: Muscular, Lean
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Race: Clearfin Lionfish Mermaid (1/2 Tiger Shark Merfolk, 1/2 Lion Fish Fishman)
Occupation: Musician
Bounty/Rank: 5,000,000

Total X-Poinz: 353

Used X-Poinz: 300

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Personality

Burning hot with fiery passion, Hanabi puts all of herself into everything she does. As a result, she can be rather short tempered. She doesn’t have patience for lazy people. The only patience that she has she puts into her music. She’s stubborn as a bull shark and rude to boot. She doesn’t care who you are or where you come from, if you can’t earn her respect, prepare to be dissed.

Hanabi hates damsels but hates being one even more. She’s too proud to admit when she needs help even from her friends. She hates feeling powerless and helpless. Everything about her screams punk, though part of it is just facade to help protect her from the discriminatory stares of humans. Overall, she’s foul, rowdy, and energetic.

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Appearance

Hanabi has short fiery red hair that spikes out explosively. The color of her hair matches the color of her red stripes that cut across the white of her tail. She has a skirt of venomous spines where her tail meets the skin of her torso. The spines also line the back and sides of her tail, trailing all the way down to her tail fin.

Hanabi always wears a black top. She tends to prefer leather jackets and gloves with cut off fingers. Often times, she will wear a spiked choker necklace as well. Underneath the jacket, she wears a black tube top. Her whole body is toned. Her ears are pierced in several places as is her nose.

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Traits

Amphibious
You have the ability to breathe underwater and in open air and are adapted to be able to swim better than other races, reducing drag and allowing you to perform normal movements even in the crushing depths.

Supreme Swimmer
Your natural adaptations make you incredibly agile in the water, granting you naturally enhanced speed and mobility. You can move faster than any other race while underwater, though those with special techniques can still evade or outrun you with relative ease.

Venomous

Your natural adaptations go further in allowing you to produce venom that can be injected into others via your spines. The venom produces effects in its victims that weaken the contractions of muscles and causes changes in heart rate.  The symptoms of the venom can range between extreme pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, breathing difficulties, convulsions, dizziness, headache, numbness, pins and needles, heartburn, diaherria, and sweating.  Rarely, the venom can cause temporary paralysis of the limbs, heart failure, and even death (usually in children or the elderly).

Legless
You don’t have legs or an equivalent means of terrestrial mobility. On land, you are slow and find it difficult to move around without some sort of special equipment or walking aid suitable for you.

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Fighting Styles

Name: Merman Combat (0 XPz)
Focus: Water Manipulation, Jujustu
Class: E
Description:

This fighting style is passed down through Merfolk and revolves primarily around water manipulation.  It is essentially the Merfolk equivalent of Fishman Jujutsu, which also focuses on water manipulation and unarmed combat.

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Techniques

Name: Water Dart (125 Xpz)
Fighting Style: Merman Combat
Rank: 2
Description:

Hanabi can form a water dart from any liquid around her.  When thrown, the liquid forms a point which can pierce into object and opponents with significant force.  She can also form water darts from her own venom, providing a way to inject it into enemies.

Name: Envenomed Strikes (125 Xpz)
Fighting Style: Merman Combat
Rank: 2
Description:

Using her venom to coat her fingertips, Hanabi jabs at opponents at high speeds.  With the water manipulation involved in Merman Combat, she makes the venom sharpen to a point, which allows for these strikes to pierce skin.

Name: Spine Whip (50 Xpz)
Fighting Style: Merman Combat
Description:

This technique involves using her own venomous tail spines as a weapon. She can whip her tail around with great speed, cracking it much like one would a whip.  This is faster and more versatile while in water.  On land, it lacks some of the speed and power it would normally have.

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Background

Hanabi grew up in the fishman district of Fishman Island. Her father was a tiger shark merman and her mother was a lion fish fishwoman.  They lived in squalor and relative poverty, celebrating their fallen heroes who took stands against the humans. Her brothers were content to sit back and let the heroes teach the humans a lesson, but Hanabi wanted to follow in their heroes' footsteps.  Her brothers were cowards in her eyes, too timid to stand on their own.

Eventually, she left home despite her brother's pleas and swam up to the Sabaody Archipelago to take a stand and claim for their people the glitz and glamour of the lights above.  However, Hanabi was captured as a prize mermaid and sold for display for a noble in the West Blue.  She was kept in a display case for years to be ogled at and dance. She was eventually even made to perform music. Hanabi found some release in the fiery hot fervor of her music and found it one of her few comforts during her confinement.

Still, Hanabi didn't give up.  She practiced what her father and mother had taught her of Merman Combat.  After years of imprisonment, she managed to break free, making a narrow escape into the ocean of the West Blue.  Hanabi was totally lost and alone.  She hardened herself with hate, burying her fear and uncertainty away.

Hanabi decided that she would make her start in the West Blue not as Hanabi but as Ray.  She'd become a devil and every human would know the humiliation and disgrace that she endured for several long years.  To start this, Ray employed a series of hit and run attacks on noble vessels and eventually Marine ships.  She would surface, strike, and disappear back underneath the water's surface.

Still, all that effort didn't amount to a whole lot in the end.  She was just a nuisance to the Marines.  She wanted to be a real threat like one of her heroes Arlong.  She hunted down a ship that she knew had a Marine captain aboard and killed him, leaving the rest of the crew to tell her tale after he was good and dead.

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