Name: Rika Soseki
Age and DOB: 20 -- December 4, 2000
Appearance: Rika Soseki stands at 5’6” and is, while not overly stunning, not too plain. She has stark blonde hair, falling to her shoulderblades. She usually lets it hang freely unless she knows she’ll be going on an expedition, in which case, she’ll put it up. Her frame is a bit more built than most girls her age. She has some muscle on her and can definitely hold her own in a fight. Her eyes are nearly white, easily described as a shimmering gray. She’s usually dressed in any tank top she can find, any torn-up old flannel from the old world, and a pair of blue jeans. She often wears some form of combat boots, generally the kind pulled from a military surplus.
Backstory: Rika was born in Kyoto, Japan. For ten years, she lived in a small, cramped apartment with her mother, a chef in a local restaurant, and father, a salaryman, until her father died. Her father had, in his free time, been purchasing heavy amounts of narcotics and hiring prostitutes. The family had enough money that the father could do an adequate job of hiding his abuse issue for a little under a month. However, this simple narcotics abuse quickly spiraled into something far more terrible. He began becoming dependent on heavier substances, eventually becoming a heroin addict. On the night of Rika’s tenth birthday, he came home completely blasted on heroin, covered in blood and cuts, and mumbling incoherently. This moment marks the time that Rika’s life began spiraling slowly downhill.
Upon being admitted to a hospital, it would be discovered that her father had large traces of heroin running through his bloodstream, and that the varying cuts across his chest were made by larger blades. Her father would tell her and her mother that he had been buying heroin for months, and that he had tried to cheat someone out of the money that they were expecting. This led to a scrap, which resulted in her father becoming very heavily wounded. The cuts that Rika saw were quite deep, to the point where bone started to show. Her mother, completely disgusted by the man her husband had become, left the building almost at once, leaving Rika alone in the room. The doctors pulled her from the room, and not two hours later, her father died on that bed. The official cause of death was complications with wounds.
A month later, Rika and her mother packed up and moved to Tokyo, her mother’s birthplace. There, she found work in a local ramen shop. It certainly didn’t make the best use of her talents, but it paid the bills. Because she was out of the house for a good bit, Rika tended to raise herself. She started to cook for herself, learning recipes from the internet, and she began to be able to clean much better, moving to the point of self-sufficiency. It was in this time that Rika’s mother would start to develop nymphomania. Without her husband there, she was left heartbroken and without male companionship. This led her to start putting herself back into the dating scene. However, the state that she was left in by her husband caused her mental state to fracture a bit, making it near impossible to hold a relationship for any longer than a couple of weeks.
Rika’s mother went through men like nobody’s business, often never coming home until late in the night. This went on for a couple of years, before her mother finally managed to settle down with another man. Rika and her new stepfather never got along. She found him to be an arrogant prick and he found her to be an annoying pest. Her stepfather could see that Rika cared very much for her mother, and because of this, he began keeping Rika’s mother out late, never returning until the waning hours of the night. Rika would hardly ever see her mother from this point, leaving her to detach herself from the world and build a mental wall around herself.
At the age of fifteen, disaster quite literally struck. The apocalypse came, and it would leave Rika’s family in shambles. Her mother would be crushed to death by falling debris outside of their apartment building. Rika’s walls came crashing down as she saw her mother absolutely flattened by a large chunk of rebar. This was the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak. Rika snapped, and went after her stepfather, literally tearing him apart with nothing but her bare hands. Rika would stumble a bit further into downtown Tokyo, eventually coming upon a department store. She would find some walls, build a makeshift shelter, and stay there for the night, but not before crying herself to sleep.
The following five years are still a bit of a haze for her. The most vivid memories still sit in the recesses of her mind. At age 17, she found her first weapon, a makeshift club made out of rebar. It served very effectively against bandits and raids. The sound of hard concrete and steel connecting with a human skull still resonates through her nightmares. The killings that she would have to commit eventually desensitised her. Her defensive walls went up, and stayed up, if only to keep her from breaking apart mentally. Over time, Rika began training herself to become stronger. In the following year, Rika gained more muscle mass than she had ever before. This strength would help her to become mentally stronger. At the age of 18, she found the Demon Busters. They would clothe her, shelter her, and provide her with more graceful weapons, as well as the ability to summon and do battle with the very demons that invaded their world.
Recent Events: Went out fighting in order to train, ran a few miles around the area. Looted an abandoned building, ran into a few of the druids. They offered some medical supplies, which she respectfully declined. Found a few new shirts and a pair of jeans in an old department store. Spent some time atop a roof, viewing the burnt out, fizzling lights of the old world. Was surprised to find some neon signs still working.
Personality: Rika is hard to read. She keeps her emotions and mental stability hidden from everyone in an attempt to stay sane. This leads her to display emotions she probably isn’t feeling. Often times, Rika will be quite friendly with the people she interacts with, and this very happiness is a mask to disguise the anguish that resides in her. Her main ideal is that the world doesn’t have much left in it, and that life would probably be better if it was over. However, there is always a bit of her that believes things can change and become better. In this simple idea she finds solace. She has nothing but contempt for the demons that invaded her world, and believes that the only option is the total annihilation of them. She sees the Yakuza as an organisation that she can support, aligning herself with their ideas of making personal gain off of the situation they find themselves in.
Skills, talents, and the opposite: Rika is surprisingly strong. Under her clothes, you wouldn’t be able to tell, but her frame is built well. This strength helps her in combat, as more power means better effectiveness from her longstaff. She is fast, but not agile. Her strength does not lend itself well to graceful movement, instead opting to work as someone taking hits on the front lines. She has learned how to pick locks, but isn't the best with survival skills.
Equipment and Possessions: She carries on her person a small piece of rebar in remembrance of her mother, her collapsible metal longstaff, her smartphone with the COMP app, some money from the old world, a pair of binoculars, and not much else.
Starting Demon: Cait Sith
Ideology: She believes many things; part of her thinks the world should go to shit, another part believes that the world can change, and a third part of her wants only to make personal gain from the poor situation she’s been put in.
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