ASHIRA SESHADRI

Descriptions

Ashira is a daughter of Llewella, though with no real resemblance to her mother. She currently has no specific set of colours or symbol which is 'hers'. She is also a shapeshifter, so she actually has three main forms. These are as follows:

Human Form

At the Start

She appears to be aged in her mid to late teens, with medium brown skin, black hair, and African features. She is of average height, pretty rather than beautiful with sharp, indeed thin, features, and a thin build. Her hair is cut short, in fact fairly close cropped. She has watchful grey eyes. There is a black circle brand on her right cheek.

She wears 18th century-style clothing - a frock coat, shirt, tight trousers, knee-high boots and a tricorn (three-fold) hat. The coat, trousers and hat are, for preference, in dark blue, the shirt in white, and the boots in black. She would wear more courtly clothing if appropriate (though would be more than a little uncomfortable in it).

She seems to carry various items of weaponry concealed about her person, particularly what is now a high-tech or magical pistol of some sort, and at least one well-used, but sharp and well-cared-for looking dagger. And lockpicks. She also carries lockpicks, and seems to know how to use them.

She smokes cigarettes, a lot of them.

At the End

After Ashira has her epiphany, her look changes. She stands straighter and appears, perhaps, a little more relaxed. Her skin and hair are both healthier-looking and more lustrous, their colour richer. The circular brand on her cheek is gone. Her eyes are brighter.

Her clothes have changed too. Her coat is now knee-length, in royal blue velvet, with swirling embroidery, like thin jointed tentacles, on the cuffs, lapels and hem. This is worn over a shirt of lustrous white silk with golden buttons and tight royal blue velvet trousers which vanish into knee-high black boots that are polished to a mirror shine.

On her head she now wears a royal blue tricorn hat with a ruby and gold cockade on the front. The ruby in the cockade is a facetted circular gem one inch in diameter held in a gold setting which looks like interwoven jointed golden tentacles.

Ashira's voice, now that she has finally developed it, sounds something like a cross between Odo (from DS9) and Belana Torrses (from Voyager).

Demon Form

This looks like a large (7' tall, 5' diameter), roughly cylindrical, fairly densely packed bush of glossy black metal jointed armoured tentacles studded with silver thorns, radially symmetric as much as anything, with no centre - all branches cross-link essentially at random through the body.

The many branches are intrinsically tough and in addition the non-centralised bush-like nature of this forms physiology makes it very resistant to damage as it is hard for attacks to hit anything vital even if they do get through her armour. The many branches can all be used as walking, climbing or manipulative limbs, and can extend up to several metres from the main 'bush'. All branches are roughly the same size, tapering towards to tips; they do not branch or cross-link away from the central core.

The silver thorns which stud the body can extend up to the size of daggers. All the branches are dotted with small (1/2" diameter) matt black discs which act as eyes, allowing vision in all directions simultaneously.

Once Ashira develops a voice, that of this form is like metal grating together.

Ashira to Demon Form

Ashira stands very still, concentrating. Her flesh begins to liquefy. Matt black spots appear over her skin as her head seems to deflate and merge with her torso, and her limbs and torso mergo into one. She seems to grow, both in mass and bulk, as the single mass which is now her body splits into many cross-linked glossy black metal jointed armoured tentacles, which form a 'networked' torso, radially symmetric as much as anything, with no centre - all tentacles cross-link essentially at random through the body. Many long tentacular limbs tipped with a variety of hooks, spikes, blades and fingers (still spotted with matt black) extending up to several metres from it. As the last tentacles slip into place, what appear to be small silver thorns or blades grow out through the armour, leaving a faceless, utterly non-human creature, much bigger than Ashira (7 feet tall and 5 feet in diameter), where she just was...

Avatar Form

A large female leopard.

Ashira to Avatar Form

Ashira concentrates and a faint flush of mottled fur appears over her skin. She falls into a crouch as her head comes up, neck shifting and thickening as her jaw grows outward and sprouts carnivore's teeth. Her eyes turn green and slitted. Her ears point and move towards the top of her head. Her limbs and torso stretch and bend as a tail sprouts from the base of her spine, her fingers shrink into paw-pads and fur continues to sprout, until a leopard is left where Ashira just stood. It shakes its head and glances about alertly...

Points Expenditure

At the Start

At the End

Other Information

At the start of the game.

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The Trump of Ashira was drawn by moriqu_endi@yahoo.com, who plays Tamora.