Riku (Detailed)

Pranking: Riku runs a prank shop on the outside of the school, hidden up in the one of many caves on Jade Mountain. She will prank anyone for the price of ground cherries, her favourite snack. If she's feeling particularly rebellious, she'll just prank others for her own entertainment. This ranges from jokingly shocking someone to doing things that could seriously harm herself or others.

Fighting: She loves fighting monsters and frequently goes out hunting for them, sometimes collecting their pieces as trophies to show off her kills. She's rarely allowed off school property, so she really enjoys this.

HABIT: Riku bares her teeth and growls at others when she speaks, which is just something she does.

HABIT: She bounces around when she's energised, hopping up and down frequently on her feet.

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Fear of Powers: Riku fears her own mind and what her powers could do if she let them take control of her body. These two things combined petrify her, and pointing this out can make her use her powers less than normal in a fight. However, this is just a temporary fix to problems, as when she fights, her powers automatically ramp up as a defense. Using this tactic is more effective before or after a fight, or when she’s not in combat at all. Reminding her of her past attacks can definitely scare her.

Friends: Despite how much she acts like she cares about no one, she is scared of how much she cares about her few friends. Riku would kill for them. Riku would die for them. If they were in harm’s way, Riku would do anything to get them out of it, even if it would hurt her or make her push herself way too far. She knows this will likely hurt her much more than it will help her, but she can’t drop her bonds. She is too attached. She couldn’t accept it if any of them died. She wouldn’t accept it. Ri would try to bring them back. Ri would do anything.

Emotional Fragility: Riku’s emotions are easily toyed with, so she tends to keep them hidden or covered by anger and rage. She has emotional breakdowns often, but they are all secret, and no one knows how fragile she really is. Riku feels unloved, but she has done absolutely nothing to make her feelings known. She thinks she deserves it, so she keeps it inside. She keeps it a secret.

Reputation: Her reputation is a sore spot for her, as she never felt understood from the pedestal that everyone puts her own, and this makes her doubt her actions and feel alone even when she’s not. On the other hand, she can act irrationally to “keep up” this toxic reputation though, going as far to insult others unprovoked and be generally untouchable as a dragon could be. This is to keep an emotional distance to drive away future attachments others may try to make with her. It’s a repetitive cycle that is incredibly harmful to her physical and emotional health.

Mother's Death: Sometimes, in the right context, mentioning the death of her mother can cause her to go into a downward spiral of emotion. Even though it wasn’t her fault and she couldn’t have done anything to stop it, Riku will always blame herself for not being strong enough. It can cause her to become extremely vulnerable, however, if it is said mindlessly and in pure hate to her, she will ignore it and look down on you for it. She may gain temporary strength from it, so exploiting this weakness can be a double-edged sword, but when done right, it can devastate the dragoness.

Tribal Skills: After her transformation, her tribal skills have faded a lot, but she is still a fast swimmer and can breathe underwater for about three hours before her gills start to give out. After that, Ri can hold her breath for about an hour. She is still an incredibly fast swimmer due to her constant training, but with her limited gills, she’s working on increasing her lung capacity and breath-holding. She inherited no skills from her SkyWing side.

Combat Abilities: Riku is an extremely good fighter. She trains almost every hour of the day, even at the dead of night in the middle of the woods. The only time she isn’t training is her break days and her “prank days”, as well as the two to six hours of sleep she gets every night. She is good with talon-to-talon, and her fighting style is incredibly unpredictable and adaptable to a wide range of foes. This is one of her best skills due to her dedication and constant practice.

Weapon Skills: She is less skilled with weapons than her own talons, but she still trains with them on ¼ of her training days, which is still a lot. Her preferred weapon is her sword, which is imbued with her native element of electricity. She is a master with it, but she still wants to hone her skills.

Multilingual: Riku is fluent in three languages; the common Draconic known to all dragons, the Greek she learned from her father, and her mother spoke a lot of French. She is more fluent in both Greek and French than she is Draconic, as it’s what she grew up knowing before Draconic.

Electrokinesis: Being a child of the lightning god, Riku has immense control over electricity and lightning. She can manipulate it in all forms and can make shapes and weapons from controlled bolts. In a human setting, Riku would have enough power to black out a few streets worth of people.

Blood Ritual Abilities: This is a power of Riku’s that she was not born with. She has these abilities due to a blood sacrifice she performed. As a result, she calls herself a Stormborn, after how these powers manifested in the form of a huge storm. This ritual transformed her, making her more god than mortal.

Everytime she kills something — be it mortals or animals — she gains power from their physical, magical, and spiritual strength. This allows her to go way past her limits, and can give her addicting rushes of power that sweep her off her feet. This augmented power eventually fades after a certain period of time if she doesn’t keep killing, until she is just at base power again.

It mainly enhances her speed, strength, and natural demigod abilities by exponential levels when used excessively. Rikue rarely uses this power, if ever, because animals and monsters she actually wants to kill are few and far between. She doesn’t want to kill mortals, even though they would give her the greatest boost in power.

GOAL: Riku has expressed interest in bettering her tribal skills, namely her SeaWing underwater breathing and to bring out more SkyWing traits, such as better flying endurance.

Power: She fears her own powers, often being afraid that if she let them take control, she would never get control of herself again. Reminding her of her past attacks can scare her.

Friends: Riku care for her few friends, but this scares her. She would die and kill for them, even if it hurts her more than helping her.