Ashita, Benkei [APPROVED 4-1]

Basics

Name: Ashita, Benkei
True Age: 28
Gender: Female
Personality: Benkei always mixes work with pleasure. She'd rather spend her time socializing to gain new funding, positions, or to get those who are of her favor promoted. It is how she gained her position, honestly. She's an amazing manipulator. She can choose her words precisely, and her tone (and body) does not help the cases against her gaining something. Benkei is not a drunk, but she enjoys drinking. Rather, Benkei enjoys seeing others drink. When one is drinking, they become more relaxed. When they are more relaxed, Benkei can propose more things. Most of the time, those proposals will get approved. At work, she's a bit more proper. She never misses a meeting with either the Prime Minister or her relatives.
In battle, Benkei is a bit different. No, she isn't different. Benkei is still as proper, and as leisurely as she normally is. She fights with her fists normally, striking the chi points on a human and where they would be on another person. She'd rather not kill, being a general and all. However, Benkei does not mind killing someone who tries to kill her. She takes her self-defense very seriously, and she has put martial arts training back into the curiculum in the JSSDF training.

General Appearance

Appearance: Benkei has ash-black hair to her waist, always unkempt. The most Benkei does to her hair is make sure none of it is upwards. Benkei's eyes are a beautiful amesthyst. Her skin is like her father's, tan but not necessarily dark. Benkei's outfit is also strange, especially for the highest-ranking position in the Japanese Strategic Self Defense Force. She wears a white button-down shirt with the top four buttons unbuttoned. She does not wear a bra, which makes her appearance very distracting to other high-ranking officers, which is something she uses to her advantage. She wears a skirt that extends just above her fingertips, but her stockings stand out more. The black leggings she wears are silk. Her shoes vary between geta or simple buckle shoes.

Appearance Age: 20-ish
Height: 170cm
Weight: 60kg

Natural Abilities

Natural Abilities:

• Neigong Master: Neigong, also spelled nei kung, neigung, or nae gong, refers to any of a set of Chinese breathing, meditation and spiritual practice disciplines associated with Daoism and especially the Chinese martial arts. Neigong practice is normally associated with the so called "soft style", "internal" or neijia 內家 Chinese martial arts, as opposed to the category known as waigong 外功 or "external skill" which is historically associated with shaolinquan or the so called "hard style", "external" or wàijiā 外家 Chinese martial arts. Both have many different schools, disciplines and practices and historically there has been mutual influence between the two and distinguishing precisely between them differs from school to school.
  There is both martial and non-martial neigong. Well known examples of martial neigong are the various breathing and focus trainings taught in some traditional Taijiquan, Baguazhang and Xingyiquan schools. The martial art school of neigong emphasises training the coordination of the individual's body with the breath, known as the harmonisation of the inner and outer energy(內外合一), creating a basis for a particular school's method of utilising power and technique.
  Neigong exercises that are part of the neijia tradition involve cultivating physical stillness and or conscious (deliberate) movement, designed to produce relaxation or releasing of muscular tension combined with special breathing techniques such as the "tortoise" or "reverse" methods. The fundamental purpose of this process is to develop a high level of coordination, concentration and technical skill that is known in the martial arts world as neijin (內勁). The ultimate purpose of this practice is for the individual to become at one with heaven or the Dao (天人合一).
  
  
• Xíngyìquán Expert: To begin, one must know what Xingyiquan is. Xingyiquan (Chinese: 形意拳; pinyin: Xíngyìquán) is one of the major "internal" or Wudang styles of Chinese martial arts. The word translates approximately to "Form/Intention Boxing", or "Shape/Will Boxing", and is characterized by aggressive, seemingly linear movements and explosive power. There is no single organizational body governing the teaching of the art, and several variant styles exist. A practitioner of xingyiquan uses coordinated movements to generate bursts of power intended to overwhelm the opponent, simultaneously attacking and defending. Forms vary from school to school, but include barehanded sequences and versions of the same sequences with a variety of weapons.
  Xingyiquan uses the five classical Chinese elements (Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, Earth)to metaphorically represent five different states of combat. Also called the "Five Fists" or "Five Phases," the Five Elements are related to Taoist cosmology although the names do not literally correspond to the cosmological terms.
  Xingyiquan practitioners use the five elements as an interpretative framework for reacting and responding to attacks. This follows the five element theory, a general combat formula which assumes at least three outcomes of a fight; the constructive, the neutral, and the destructive. Xingyiquan students train to react to and execute specific techniques in such a way that a desirable cycle will form based on the constructive, neutral and destructive interactions of five element theory. Where to aim, where to hit and with what technique—and how those motions should work defensively—is determined by what point of which cycle they see themselves in.
  
  
• Acupuncture and Tuī Ná Master: Benkei is a master acupuncturist and a master Tuī Ná practitione. Tuī Ná is also known as acupressure, which is a lot like acupuncture, except it uses the bare hands instead of needles. This allows her to stimulate the body to heal faster. However, it also makes her an assassin and a strong martial artist. She can strike the pressure points of one's body to immobilize parts of their body, or the entire body depending if she strikes with enough force. If Benkei strikes right below the sternum with enough force, there is even a chance of death.
  

Qi Abilities

Type: Jìnéng
Appearance change: Benkei does not change in appearance. Instead, she focuses her own Qi to create a Khakkhara staff.

Abilities:
Hé de Shìxiàn Liú: (河的視線流; lit. The sight of the river flow) Hé de Shìxiàn Liú is the only ability based on Qi, aside from her staff's, of Benkei's. By training her eyes instead of her body on the usage of Qi, Benkei's usage of it is solely held within her them. Whereas most people tap into Qi, Benkei instead taps around Qi. The flow of it in increased amounts is easily detectable by Benkei's eyes. Basically, it allow Benkei to see the flow of Qi in the body, as it his highly contained inside of it. However, it also carries another significance. Benkei essentially can see the buildup of Qi around things that Qi do not flow in. If Qi can not flow into something, then it would be repelled. Thus, there is an increased amount of Qi around spiritual beings, but not inside of them. This gives Benkei the ability to see once-invisible spiritual beings as the Qi around them is built up. However, it is vary hard to discern that, except there will generally be a void where their body is, but it is very faint. Stronger spiritual beings repel Qi faster and stronger.

Kàn Dào Hǎi de Bō: (看到海的波; lit. See the ocean wave) Kàn Dào Hǎi de Bō is a major enhancement over Hé de Shìxiàn Liú. Kàn Dào Hǎi de Bō is used to detect not only the flow of Qi, but also the flow of reiatsu and the like. However, it is not detected by her eyes. Instead, the six rings on her Khakkhara detect the changes in the flow. Each of the rings detect the ebb and flow of the spiritual (Qi, Reiatsu, etc.) energies aroung them, clanking together when increased amounts are near.

Past & Roleplay Sample

Character Background: Benkei's mother was a monk on the outskirts of Karakura. Benkei's mother kept Benkei's existance as her daughter a secret, claiming she was a child from Karakura. Her mother taught Benkei at home, which was strange considering that Karakura had the best education system in Japan. Benkei was taught not only things from a book, but also martial arts. Specifically, she was taught Xingyiquan.

Benkei quickly surpassed her mother in Xingyiquan. Why? Benkei had nothing to do outside of Xingyiquan. As soon as Benkei surpassed her mother, she [her mother] began teaching Benkei how to use the flow of her own body and the space around them to her advantage. This flow, Qi, was around everything and inside everyone... that was alive. Benkei's mother soon fell ill. Before she passed away, she gave Benkei the name of her father.

Benkei decided not to search for him yet and instead attempted to get a job to support herself. However, nowhere accepted her mother's schooling. Thus, Benkei was forced to go into the last profession: the Japanese Self-Defense Force. Benkei, thanks to her Xingyiquan training, was already proficient in the endurance part of her training. She soon learned that her commanding officer had a small drinking problem. In order to get out of her menial duties, Benkei offered him drinks. While he was wasted, he signed off on a two-rank promotion.

That would not be the last time Benkei tried that tactic. While she did assist with the fighting, Benkei mainly stayed in the office. She did everything by the book, giving her quite the reputation. She used her initial tactic to pass forward plans and to get promotions. However, she was soon appointed to the top council of the Japanese Strategic Self-Defense Force. The JSSDF was the true commanding body of the JSDF, JADF, and JMDF.

Benkei soon got ballsy and invited the prime minister to drink with her. In doing so, she got on his good side. The prime minister soon promoted her to the Commander-General of the JSSDF, which gives her nearly unlimited power as to what to do with the military, as long as it didn't do anything to raise taxes too much. Then, Benkei felt it was a good idea to finally meet up with her father. Thanks to the Japanese government's Special Residents list, Benkei tracked her father down in Karakura. She lives there with her father and younger sister when not on duty.

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Tier: 4-1