Shirai Kage

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Summary
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Backstory
There was once a youkai closely associated with the snow of Japan. This youkai befriended a mortal Japanese noble girl some years ago, watching her grow into a woman who epitomizes elegance, wisdom, and kindness. The youkai felt fascinated by this girl, the two becoming close friends. However, something was rotten in the state of Japan. A group of scientists, closely intertwined with the girl's parents, caught wind of the pair's friendship, devising to manipulate their mutual trust to further their ends. Their goal was to manifest a youkai in the physical world, creating an entity malleable in both form and personality - a shapeshifting slave. They schemed and connived to convince the woman's heart, using her to convince the youkai by proxy. Through a long and arduous process, the youkai was persuaded, and its fate would be sealed.

It willingly took part in an hours-long ritual experiment that simultaneously bastardized both science and the supernatural. While the ritual successfully bonded the spirit to the gelatinous substance that would become its new physical body, the body lacked certain characteristics that caused the experiment to be a partial failure. Rather than a shapeshifting spirit with a physical body, it was more a writhing, formless mass with limited ability to move and interact with the world, a permanent and horrific new reality soon dawning on the once proud youkai. It also lost many of its memories from before it met the girl in the process, the body only retaining newly-formed memories while its older memories remained hidden deep within its spiritual mind.

For a long period, it was their captive, but it was not alone. The young woman never abandoned it, its untenable situation never causing her kindness to falter. She was apologetic for she blamed herself most of all. She soon became the primary enemy of the group of scientists, though her fight against them was purely political due to her lack of combat ability. That fight soon became her downfall, as she was struck down in an assassination attempt by another of the group's more "successful" experiments. This enraged the youkai who found a way to escape through ingenuity and pure force of will, taking advantage of the chaos created by the accusations of the woman's family, the same one that was the group's primary benefactor.

However, to move was a struggle and to survive was an effort. She could have feasibly allowed her physical body to rot and die, but she could not allow it, for without a tangible form she could not exact revenge or honor the memory of her fallen friend. But how could she do it with such a useless body? She wandered the wilderness of Japan for months, lost and alone. It was not until she found a dojo hidden within the snowy mountains of Japan that she had forgotten. A place that her spirit remembered, but her body did not. At this point, she could maintain a vaguely humanoid shape, but not permanently or without difficulty. She watched from afar as the martial artists of this dojo trained in the koka arts; that is, the art of hardening the body.

One day, while she was watching them in secret, suddenly appearing before her was the master of the dojo. He had seen her watching them for days and knew somewhat of her being. He offered her a chance to train, which she silently accepted for she was still unable to speak in this formless body. While this technique of hardening originated with only humans in mind, it is an art that works on similar principles for any living being. For the next several years, she trained at this dojo dutifully, mastering the art of hardening as well as many other skills suitable for a ninja. She became able to control her consistency at will, controlling the shape and hardness of her form effortlessly.

During her training, she developed not only her body but her principles. One consequence of losing her memories was losing her true name, for all those months living as a formless and nameless being. However, she forgot nothing about her friend, her memory perfectly encapsulated in her mind. Amaterasu was the name of the young woman she once befriended, and it is now the name that she will forever go by. She would take on her form and name, ensuring that the young woman's honorable legacy would live on through her.

Once she had achieved a rote mastery of these skills, she decided that she must bring her training beyond her dojo. She was grateful for the friendships she had made at the dojo, especially with her master, but the time for the bird to leave the nest had arrived. Her destination of choice was Starlight City, as the increasing super-crime in the city made it the perfect place to hone her skills with real experience.

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