ShadowPhantomDragon

Introduction
ShadowPhantomDragon is a hybrid of a fox, a dragon, and a human, looking the part of all three. She is referred to as many different names, half of which she can’t keep track of herself. Despite what everyone tells her, she is persistent in proving that life IS an anime. She is a newly Certified Warrior, and is still getting to know everyone.

Story
ShadowPhantomDragon was born in the village of Yami to Arashi. This village is populated with animal spirits and people alike. In the village, there exists a Shaman whose job it is to keep peace between the spirits and the living inhabitants of Yami to Arashi. The Shaman is chosen among the living inhabitants who display the ability to communicate with the spirits.

Phantom happened to be the most apt communicator with the spirits, and was thusly selected as next in line to be Shaman of the village. Anyone else would have been leaping with joy, but not ShadowPhantomDragon. She felt extremely stressed, believing that her attitude wasn't a good fit for the role and that she would fail. She knew that she would be too stubborn to try to change who she was for the role she was given.

Despite already understanding the difficulties she might face, she felt heavily pressured to take up the mantle, and accepted to learn the ways of the Shaman. She was given the Shaman’s headpiece, and spent three years learning the ways of spiritual power and refining her ability to communicate with spirits. She became fast friends with a spirit named Yami no Kokochiyo-sa or as she calls him, Kochiyo.

Kochiyo was a spirit with immense intelligence, and so knew to not upset the natural balance of things. He would often listen to Phantom, who would share her struggles and grievances. They would often sit for hours on a cliff near the village, one speaking and one listening.

As the date grew nearer and nearer for her to become Shaman, Phantom had to make a choice: whether she would take up the responsibility, or if she would run away from it. The more she looked at either of the options she had, the more she realized that, regardless of the choice, people were going to be unhappy. She decided that she was unready to inherit a role of this magnitude, so she ran away.

Unbeknownst to her, Kochiyo had followed her out of the village. She had ran so far away that she didn’t know the way back to Yami to Arashi. Regardless of her navigational skills, she knew deep inside, she wouldn't be able to go back. Lost, scared but not alone, she spent a few days in the forest trying to calm herself and decide what to do next.

When she had finally collected her nerves, she began on a journey to find a new home. She set off to the direction the leaves seemed to be facing, using that as her compass. However, not too long into her journey, she was attacked by bandits, who saw her as an easy target.

She fought back, they fought harder. Having no prior experience in combat, she was no match for the bandits who had befallen her. They knocked her unconscious to capture her, and knowing her wings could fetch quite the price of the market, they sawed the wings off. She woke up to a pain so immense; she couldn't move for three days.

During those three days, however, she studied the actions of the bandits. Determined to survive, she used her wit to memorize the schedule of her captors. Using this knowledge to her advantage, she escaped from the bandits, running for hours on end in order to get them off of her trail.

When she was too tired to run anymore she found a cave to take shelter in. Inside the cave were many crystals, each crystal one of three colors: black, red, and gold. The crystals seemed to call out to her, the calls getting more powerful the closer she came to the center of the room, where she spotted the three largest crystals.

ShadowPhantomDragon, ever curious, reached out to touch one of the crystals in the center. When her hand came into contact with it, immediately the crystals shocked her with a large burst of energy. The shock certainly would have proven lethal had Kochiyo not taken some of the blast.

When Phantom and Kochiyo woke up, the crystals were no longer glowing, but the two of them both had red, gold, and black marks under their eyes. Phantom knew this would attract too much attention, and thus crafted herself visor from the crystals. However, they soon realized that the marks under their eyes were not the only changes that had occured.

After she had crafted the visor, she continued on her journey to find a new place to call home. She came across the famed city Kikai, a bustling metropolis filled with famous inventors and their top-of-the-line projects. She quickly realized here she could use some of the technology to help create a new pair of wings.

She set to work to forge newer, more improved wings. Kochiyo helped her the required materials, and she eventually finished the wings, forging them of black and gold metal. After some struggle, she managed to get the wings on, but due to the fact she had to do it alone, accidentally melted the part of her wing meant to attach from her shoulderblade to her body. The wings were heated up in order to attach them to her body, so in order to stop the burning sensation she tried to cool it off quickly, solidifying the bonds between herself and her wings incorrectly.

Having completed the pair of wings,Phantom tested them out, finding that there were no flaws with the performance. Once that quest was complete, she realized she felt a gnawing sense of emptiness. Her past mistakes, running away, and getting captured all made her feel immense guilt.

At this point, the dark energies infused unto her from the crystals began to appear. Phantom fought herself within her own mind, going back and forth with her supposed light side and dark side. The lighter side of her mind, having been weakened from her current state of mind, succumbed to the dark side.

The dark energy had been pulling strings from long before; for it ensured that Phantom made the visor, created her wings, and imbued her boots with gold. Then, in her darkened stupor, she flew to the top of a mountain, where a storm was brewing. Her metal wings spread high in the eye of the storm, she would then be struck by lightning. Unspeakable pain and energy flowed through her body, charging up the crystals and metal around her. Having sated itself, the dark side of her mind returned to a slumber, letting the light side of Phantom's mind resume control.

But its mark had been left on ShadowPhantomDragon. During the lightning strike, she hadn’t felt as hollow as she previously did. Phantom set to work programming her wings to sync up with her mind and the crystals, so she would feel the shock which made her feel so alive whenever she started feeling negative.

Phantom continued on her quest to find a new home, adventuring and seeking out new places and opportunities. Kochiyo remained by her side the entire way, he also affected by the dark energy of the crystals. The two of them traveled to many different cities, trying many new things and seeking excitement.

One time while sitting in the forest conversing with Kochiyo, he believed that Phantom might be able to transform with the power stored in her. Curious herself, she tried it, and found she could indeed transform into either a fox or a dragon. However, it seemed like her power weakened the more she changed forms and longer she was in a non-human form.

She later found out this was due to the fact the crystals had only affected her human form, and thus their power was handicapped and became unavailable to her when she was not a human. Due to this, she trained in combat more in those forms for situations where being a human was not an option. She trained her ability of transformation away from the cities, but when she felt she had mastered it as much as she was capable, she continued on her quest for adventure.

Eventually, Phantom found the Warriors, who accepted her into their ranks. After she was caught in the destruction of the Flood Escape Facility, she made it back to the HQ and immediately was fascinated with the television. She quickly figured out how to operate it and by luck by luck happened upon a channel broadcasting anime. She instantly fell in love with this form of media, especially with the worlds built in them.

It became a past-time for her to watch anime, but she still prefers speaking with Kochiyo, who now resides inside her bow to stay near her. She learned during the time she spent trapped in the ruins of the first facility that in order to survive,her light and her dark mindsets had to live in tune with each other.

She is now happy in the Warriors Headquarters training her combat skills, watching anime, playing card games, and reprogramming her wings to upgrade them into better weapons for her own protection. She was experimenting with weapons one day and found a triple-bladed scythe, falling in love with its combat style and taking it as her weapon.

Personality
ShadowPhantomDragon is constantly concerned with upholding her reputation. It is her primary motivation, and she often goes out of her way to ensure her reputation remains. She is normally pretty calm around people she knows, but is very, very shy. Much of her life revolves around her passion for music and art. She is normally very nice, but upset her and she will stop at nothing for revenge. When she starts to get scared she exhibit traits more like her non-human forms, acting like a warning that if she doesn't calm down she'll transform.

Skills
ShadowPhantomDragon is skilled in the ways of computer science and forging. She is also very strategic and is sure to think through her moves before she makes them. She can play the piano, and she loves to draw, hoping to achieve a style like that of the anime she loves.

Weapons
Gold-Dust: The wings she forged in Kikai, built originally just to meet her need to fly again. Later reprogrammed and upgraded to function as her weapons, able to turn the black metal flaps into blades attached by silver chains to the framework into sharp and deadly blades. She can move them and do anything with them via her mind, they had become that of a natural limb to her. When she is very desperate, she can use the electricity imbued in them to shock the one she is fighting, however using this ability puts her through an even larger electric shock thank her opponent, something her body can’t handle all the time.

Electrode: A triple-bladed scythe that she found one day during training. She decided it was something she enjoyed fighting with, taking it as her weapon. She got to work adding circuits to it, linking it to her mind just like her wings, Gold-Dust, imbuing it with the same electric power she has flowing within her. She decided that it would be a better weapon to use than her wings, as she didn’t want them to be destroyed, and thus took the scythe and named it Electrode, becoming her main weapon.

Skills
Spiritual Sight: This power was something she learned while training to be a Shaman in Yami to Arashi. It allows her to see any spirits dwelling in the areas around her. It is because of this ability that she can continue seeing her friend the dragon-human spirit Kochiyo. It is something that happens passively, she always sees the spirits and they’ll always see her. This ability does allow her to let spirits possess her body, she loses control over herself, so it is something she would never use.

Transformation: She has the ability to transform into the forms of her non-human lineage, a fox and a dragon. This skill, however, takes a lot of energy to perform and Phantom has therefore has decided against using it on the daily, despite training it to improve her ability to transform before finding the Warriors. (Although, she loves being in her non-human forms.) This ability is linked heavily to her emotions, specifically her negative ones, meaning if she feels heavily pressured, scared, or large amounts of negative emotions, she'll be forced into a transformation until she calms down. When she starts to get scared she might begin acting or looking more like her non-human sides, like a warning if she doesn't calm down she'll transform.

Weaknesses
She is naive to a fault, meaning that if the enemy has not directly caused her harm, she will probably try to come up with an excuse for their actions. Her ability to transform is also linked to her emotions heavily, meaning if she feels pressured or an immense amount of a negative emotion, she will transform unwillingly and be forced to stay that way until she has calmed down.

Another weakness of hers is a mention of her past, which will cause her to feel more hollow and guilty. Simply discussing her past will cause her to go into a tizzy of trying to forget that part of her life, unable to think of anything else. In the state she would go in, she would probably be forced to transform. She hates talking about her past and will resent you for weeks if you bring it up about her. So she is very thankful not many people know.