APPLICATION

[icemaiden]

✖ PLAYER:
Name & DW Journal: Mae (blankets)
Birthdate & Age: 08/01/87 | 24
Characters played in Zodion: N/A

✖ CHARACTER:
Name: Yukina
Canon: Yu Yu Hakusho
PB/Image: Image.
Info links: YYH Wiki.
Canon Point: Post series , Pre-OVAs.
Gender: Female

Age: It isn't explicitly stated in the series, but she is somewhere around her, if not over, 50s due to her being a demon. She is under the age of 100, that much is certain, due to the fact she has yet to have her first child.

Birthdate/Sign: Her birth date is unknown in canon, however, due to the fact that Hiei is her twin brother, her sign would also be Aries, just as his is. While at first this doesn't sound like the rigt zodiac to fit her, there are multiple attributes that fall under what it means to be a Aries that does apply. Her element may not be fire, but her father was a fire demon. The majority of the strengths listed ( "takes risks for others", "defends the vulnerable", "believes the best in others" and "would give life for a loved one" ) fit her to a T.

Tattoo: It is located just above her right ankle.

Power:

She has lost her ability to manipulate ice and cold, but she is keeping her gift to heal. These healing arts apply to physical injuries, ranging from cuts and bruises, to broken bones and deep wounds. Her original reason for leaving the island to come to the tournament was so that she offer her assistance as healer to Yusuke and his team as thanks for rescuing her. ( As a note to the moderators, I do have one question: her tears turning into hiruseki stones, would that be considered a power? I would like for her to keep this ability, but if not I would rather she keep her power to heal. )

Personality:

Anyone who has even heard of an ice maiden knows that they are cold, emotionless, and by all means of the definition, heartless. Particularly to everyone other than their own kind. Their fear of men has guided their ways and left them to shun the world, surviving amongst themselves on the floating island of ice and snow above Makai. But Yukina was not like the rest of her kind. While others were cold to strangers, she is warm and smiles in welcome to them. While they judge she merely accepts people for who they are. When they hate, she loves. Yukina is everything that the ice maidens she had once lived with are not. She is unlike any koorime anyone has ever seen.

The koorime is a kind and caring demon who likes humans, which is something of a surprise all things considered. Due to her kind nature animals see no reason to fear her. Birds tend to be a constant companion of hers and had been her only friends at the time of her captivity. Despite her life on the island she shows kindness to others no matter who they are. Instead of jumping to conclusions she prefers to make her own decisions about a person. Some may call it being naive, and sometimes she can be, but in her case it has allowed to make friends with the most unlikely of people.

To those who have been cruel to her she has shown mercy. Even in the case of Tarukane, the human who had tortured her for her tears, she had begged Hiei not to kill him. She doesn't see what can be achieved by killing someone nor would it change anything. Instead, she chose to live with those memories and move on with her life. She didn't want to see anyone else die because of her. No matter who they were.

Her sweet disposition makes it easy for her to get along with just about anyone. She has made friends with humans and non-humans whom she has become close to. Keiko, Shizuru, and Botan are the ones she spends the most time with when she returned from the island and went to the tournament. They were the ones to find her wandering the tournament grounds and took it upon themselves to make sure she got inside safely. Yukina spent the most time bonding with them, becoming close friends, even considering them to be like sisters. They were the first female company she had that was not her own kind. From them she was able to learn more about the human world and what it is that humans do. Not to mention she could rely on them for help understanding some of matters Kazuma would ramble on about. Another human worth mentioning is Genkai, who after the events of the tournament, allowed for Yukina to come stay with her at the temple. While the relationship between them isn't seen often on screen, based on the OVAs and the movie, Yukina helps the older woman take care of the temple grounds. It is easy to assume that the pair gets along just fine since Genkai has yet to yell at her for doing something stupid or idiotic.

When it comes to Kazuma, he is one of the people she trusts the most. Granted he seems a little odd to her, particular since the concepts of "romance" and "love" tend to go over her head, but she finds him to be endearing and sweet. Not only was he a part of the team that rescued her from Tarukane, but Kazuma was the one who could see what happened to her and understand the pain she had suffered. His concern for her touched her deeply. She even assured Kazuma that she didn't hate humans at all, despite what Tarukane had done, and has since then wanted to help him and Yusuke for everything they had done for her. Their relationship is a sweet, adorable, and a little clumsy, but despite his bizarre tendencies she has relied on him for help.

The only other person who had puzzled her the most at first though was the imiko, Hiei. Ever since she first met him upon her rescue she has always felt as if she should know him, which is certainly saying something since he was the brother she had been searching for. While others may have warned her to be careful around him she always felt comfortable in his presence. After all, he had saved her life on more than one occasion. How could someone who has helped her so many times before be a bad person? Having the utmost respect for him, Yukina put her trust in him as she had Kazuma and the others. Even though he had repeatedly told her to give up on her search for her brother she would thank him for his advice with a smile but refuse to give up. Towards the end of the series, when she had given him the tear-drop stone that had been given to her by her mother, the ice maiden asked him to give her brother that necklace should he find him. She had recanted the story of her twin, or at least the little that she knew, to him and how she felt about her people. It was than that he scolded her and gave her advice that, once he was finished, she made a point to say that those words of his sounded like the advice a sister would normally hear from her brother.

However, she does have a stubborn streak. Her determination and well-meant intentions had motivated her to learn all that she could in the matters of healing. It was her way of saying thanks to those who had rescued her, as well as to make up for her own insecurities. Disobeying the rules of her people she left the island a second time, but this time by choice. Knowing full well of the consequences that would come she still decided to abandon her people to seek out her missing brother as well as to assist Yusuke and the others. She walked away from the other koorime without any intention of going back. She wanted to live her life as she saw fit. One that was not cut off from the world she had grown fond of.

It can be noted though that despite her kind nature, her own heart is cold when it comes to that of her people. Unable to forgive the women of the island for what they had done to her brother and not finding it possible to agree with their way of life, she felt nothing for them. The only ice maiden she had ever allowed herself to let into her life was Rui, her mother's closest friend. But even then it was a fragile relationship.

✖ SAMPLES:
"Zodion" First-Person Network Entry:

[ When the video feed started, the first thing to show was what appeared to be a young woman with blue-green hair looking both worried and troubled. Bright red eyes were focused on the screen as she held the device carefully in her hands. The koorime was not used to using technology but had managed to work out the basics of it for herself. With some effort on her part she had managed a very small smile, as if it would help her to relax some. It was obvious that despite her confusion she was trying not to let it get the best of her.

This was not Genkai's Temple nor was it Makai. She was forced into a new world that she was entirely unfamiliar with and, to make matters worse, she had realized that she no longer had the ability to manipulate the ice and cold. It was her only means of defense and even that had been taken away from her. But perhaps, if one could consider this the bright side, her gift to heal was not lost. She had tested this theory earlier on by healing a small cut she had received on the back of her hand. Small favors, one could say.

Finally, after taking a breath, followed by a quiet exhale, she spoke. It was a soft-spoken tone but she was still smiling regardless. ]

Hello, my name is Yukina. Please forgive me if this is a nuisance to anyone, but I'm afraid that I'm a little new here.

[ There was a momentary pause as she bowed her head in greeting. ]

I'm unsure as to what these Twelve are expecting of me, or who they are for that matter, but if it isn't too much trouble, I would appreciate some assistance in getting acquainted with this place. I promise to keep my questions to a minimum. [ That last sentence was spoken with a soft laugh while she brushed her bangs away from her eyes. ] I only need a little help in learning my way around.

"Zodionlogs" Third-Person Prose Entry:

The day had been like any other. Nothing out of the ordinary had happened and everything was the way it was supposed to be. While it wasn't sunny out, the clouds would periodically pass over the sun to allow rays of light to shine on that fall afternoon. And while the air was beginning to feel chillier than the day before it didn't bother Yukina in the slightest. No matter how cold it could get the young ice maiden would hardly ever notice. She had been on her way back from watering the plants that decorated different parts of the temple when everything had changed without warning.

Now, the transition had been jarring to say the least. One second she was walking along the outside path with a watering can in hand, a bird perched on her left shoulder and chirping pleasantly at her. A quiet moment that had ended in a blink of an eye - literally. No sooner had she reached over to open the screen door she blinked and suddenly found herself somewhere else entirely. A place that she did not, could not, recognize. Her red eyes had grown wide with shock as she looked around. This temple she had found herself in the middle of was not the one she was at just seconds ago. Her hands were clasped together as if to comfort herself over her chest. As difficult as it was, she was trying her best not to panic.

"He- hello? Is... anyone here?"

Her voice echoed within the room. No one was here. No one that she could see. She continued to will herself to remain as she studied her surroundings. Her eyes caught sight of what appeared to be an alter. Tilting her head just a fraction to the side, her curious nature was nagging at the back of her mind. Go on. Take a look. Maybe she would find something that would help her to figure out where she was or better yet, who was behind all this. It was an automatic assumption but really, someone had to be responsible for this. Taking the few steps needed she crossed the distance between her and the alter, only hesitating for a moment to step over the shallow ring of water circling it.

Without warning, just above her right ankle, she felt a dull stabbing pain that almost caused her to trip over her own feet. The ice maiden flinched and looked down, wondering what had happened, when the water abruptly shot up around her from the floor.

Suddenly her hands clapped over her mouth to stifle a gasp.

In the reflection of the water that had formed a wall around her she saw herself. Completely naked. But as she looked down at herself she could see that she was still wearing the powder-blue kimono as always.

"What is going on here?" she whispered out loud.

Dumbfounded by this display she could only gape in silence as her question had, once again, gone unanswered. But after a few seconds she realized she could still feel that painful throbbing above her ankle. When her gaze shifted downwards it was only then that she could see the source of the pain. A curious expression dawned upon her face as she knelt down on one knee. After adjusting her kimono and tugging down the sock she could see what it was that had reflected crystal clear in the water's reflection: a tattoo that was of a design that she could not recognize. With eyebrows narrowed in puzzlement she reached down and touched it with only the very tips of her fingers.