Ryoko Akiyama

Ryoko Akiyama is a 15 year-old girl, and an awakened Shaman. Ryoko is currently enrolled as a student at the Continental Academy, placed in Class Jimenez of the White Wolves. Ryoko is from the infamous Akiyama family, a former noble family of Tsulowe that are feared for their ties to Devils.

Personality

 * Goth
 * Gloomy
 * Poor social skills
 * Likes to creep people out
 * Likes scary/creepy/dark/morbid things
 * Kinda tsundere

History
Ryoko was born into the Akiyama family, a disgraced and outcast noble family of Tsulowe. The Akiyama family are known for their ability as Devil Bearers, Shamans who house Devils within their own body. They are able to achieve this thanks to owning what they call the "Well of the Styx", which is essentially a small Gate to Purgatory itself, specifically the Styx, a massive black river running throughout Purgatory which is known to spawn Devils. Through techniques passed down from their family for generations, they are able to open this gate and summon Devils from the Styx directly into their bodies. The royalty of Tsulowe formerly employed the Akiyama as bodyguards for this power for centuries. However, a few generations in the past a member of the Akiyama lost control of their Devil, and ended up slaughtering several important Tsulowe nobles in their subsequent rampage. This has lead to the current state of the Akiyama, outcast from Tsulowe nobility and dwindled in numbers to only Ryoko and her immediate family.

Ryoko's parents aspire to restore their family to their previous status, and hoped that modelling one of their children into a famous Legionnaire hero would be able to convince the world that they were not a family of evil Devil worshippers. Ryoko's extremely talented older brother Kazumi was who their parents pinned their hopes to, putting forth all their efforts into training him, leaving Ryoko mostly neglected. All seemed to be going well for their plan, as Kazumi excelled in the Continental Academy, and was set to graduate in second place of the most impressive class the school had seen since its very first year. That was until Kazumi disappeared, fusing with the Devil inside him, becoming a being known as Tatari and joining the Desperado group known as Void.

The perception of the Akiyama family only worsened after this horrific turn of events, and Ryoko's parents were forced to shift their focus to Ryoko. Ryoko had spent all of her life to this point confined to her family's property with practically no interaction with the outside world, her parents ignoring her in favor of her older brother, only for them to suddenly thrust the responsibility of their hopes onto her. Ryoko understandably resents her parents for this, and whilst she would find herself at the Continental Academy, she has no intention of doing anything for her family's sake, instead hoping to simply enjoy freedom.

Abilities
Ryoko is a Shaman, allowing her to manipulate her Spiritual Energy, and communicate and potentially control spirits.

Basics - Ryoko of course knows the basics of combat as a Shaman, and is able to enhance her physical attributes with her Spiritual energy, as well as use her Spiritual sense to locate and track others around her.

Devil Bearer
Through a ritual passed down in her family for generations, Ryoko is what is known as a Devil Bearer, a Shaman that has been bound to a devil. Devils are monstrous beings from Purgatory made up of a unique, powerful Spiritual energy referred to as Nether that are spawned from the Styx. The devil sealed within Ryoko's body is a tremendously powerful ancient Devil known as "Shingo the Bloody Prince", and she is able to draw on small portions of his Nether to fuel her abilities.

Devil's Cloak - Ryoko is able to cloak herself in the Nether of Shingo, appearing as a dark red aura of energy around her. This cloak gives her tremendous levels of physical strength, speed, reflexes, durability, and allows her to recover from wounds much faster than normal. The power of her Devil's Cloak depends on the amount of Shingo's energy that Ryoko chooses to draw on, with it becoming much harder for her to control the more powerful she becomes, reverting to a practically feral state if she takes more than she can handle. Her Devil's Cloak displays various "stages", seemingly becoming more like Shingo in appearance as she draws on more of his power, Ryoko is currently only able to control up to the third stage.


 * Initial Stage - The base stage of Devil's Cloak, Ryoko is merely cloaked in the dark red aura of Shingo.
 * Second Stage - As Ryoko draws upon more of Shingo's power, larger quantities of his Nether gather around her hands and feet, taking the form of large ethereal claws.
 * Third Stage - In this stage a significantly larger amount of Nether is drawn from Shingo, forming into an oversized tail.

Techniques -


 * Crimson Red Claw - Ryoko concentrates extra potent Nether into the claw-aura around her hands and slashes her foe with exceptional ferocity.
 * Blood Red Bellow - This technique involves Ryoko gathering a large amount of dense Nether in her mouth, before concentrating it and firing it in the form of a large beam boasting impressive destructive power. Inspired from Evelyn's "Tyrant's Breath" attack.