Inari Tsukiakari

Inari Tsukiakari is an original character based on the world of RWBY and created by RWBY Ruby Rose. She is a member of Team MLIT and she is alluded to Mulan.

Appearance
For her appearance, Inari has dark blue, medium length hair that reaches down to a few inches above her waist and tied back into a ponytail with a yellow flower-like barrette hair accessory. She also has blue eyes that turn silver when her aura activates which is a popular trait in the Tsukiakari family. She is a young woman that has athletic build and she is of average height and weight. Her combat gear is a mix of Japanese/ American culture and it is considered semi casual.

Inari’s combat gear consists of a blue non-sleeve kimono top with yellow lining and her colored emblem as a pattern which are located on the lower left on the bottom near her waist and on the right below her breast. Her emblem can also be seen on the top of the shirt near the back of her neck. Underneath her kimono top, she wears a green one sleeve polo shirt with her right shoulder shown while her left shoulder is covered. She also wears a pair of blue arm sleeves with yellow lining on each end that extend from above her elbow to her wrist. Along with a pair of tan cargo capris and black slip on shoes, she wears two black cross belts that she uses to carry her weapons along a medium sized pouch on the left side to carry dust crystals and a couple small magazines. For her accessories, she wears a pair of gold star earrings and her white star pendent around her neck.

Inari’s nightwear includes a light blue, three quarter sleeve yukata with yellow lining and fishscale design with her symbol on the top part of her back. She wears a pink obi with yellow obiage underneath. Underneath the yukata, she wears a green spaghetti strap cami with dark blue short shorts.

Personality
Inari is a young girl that is wise, reserved, genuine and smart. Unlike other heirs and heiresses of wealthy families, Inari is a kind person and has respect and empathy for other people, despite their race or their past. She is very smart when it comes to many topics like the history of Remnant and about DUST. Though she tries to find out more about herself while she searches for the uncovered secrets of the Grimm and Remnant along with her famous clan. She would always be a person that would break up an argument and help reach an agreement between the people fighting. Inari likes to either be alone or with her friends and she would be kind and caring to the people that get to know her.

Though thanks to her past, she doesn’t trust people very easily. She is afraid that they will disappear like her parents and her brother when she was younger and also because she doesn’t want to be used by anyone for their own desires. When she talks (or thinks about) her past, she will break down in tears when she thinks about the tragedies that she went through. Because of this, she will only talk about it to people that she can trust or to prove a point to others. When she really upset with someone (either by stabbing her in the back or lie to her), Inari would get mad and leave the area where it occurred and ignore them until they apologize or confront her. If she does get mad but not furious, she would end the argument, give a glare and walk off to not make a scene. Though she would once in a while get payback in a very subtle way to the person that made her mad. She wouldn’t break out in tears after she is alone so nobody would see her. She does have her limits but as long as you don’t offend her or do anything to get her upset, she’ll leave you alone.

Once she can trust someone, she will begin to show her true self to her close friends. Inari is a strong willed, social and loyal person that will protect her friends and help them when they need it. Especially to protect them in the midst of a fight. She would also give them good advice if they ask her. Despite not trusting people, she can hold a conversation with others and still manage to become friends with them in the end.

Though, she can sometimes be forgetful about who someone is are if she doesn’t know them too well and also have a habit of being too serious in certain situations.

Biography/ History
Inari Tsukiakari was born into the Tsukiakari Clan. It is a famous and wealthy clan known for mastery over dust and producing it alongside the Schnee Dust Company. She lived in the life of luxury in the Tsukiakari mansion with her older brother, Leonardo Tsukiakari. Between Leonardo and her, she was treated better than her brother when they lived with their parents. While her brother mastered sword fighting, she mastered karate and dust when she was only 7 years old. As one of the professors observed Inari's mastery, he believed that she would be a great huntress when she became of age. Her mother and father always taught her new tricks to her abilities. It was a perfect life with no problems. However, these prosperous times did not last.

Then one night, The Tsukiakari Clan was attacked by fedora wearing henchmen. They wanted Inari for being the heir to the large fortune and for her mastery over dust. Before they could find them, her grandmother came in and helped Leonardo and Inari escape their home before they could be caught. She grabbed what she could before she escaped with her brother in their cloaks. As they ran into the Snowy Forest, she looked back in horror as she saw most of the Tsukiakari Mansion destroyed. She cried as she assumed that her parents and grandmother died in the flames. As her brother comforted her and consuled her, her grandmother appeared in the forest, wounded. Inari and Leo were happy that she made it out alive as they hugged her. She then asked her if their parents were alright. She sighed as she looked to them. Her grandmother said that she didn’t know since she didn’t witness the outcome of their fight. Inari was very depressed, but she vowed that she would someday find out about what happened to them and reunite with them if they were alive.

Her vow came to reality as she saw her grandmother talking to one of the henchmen two years later. Inari was almost caught until her grandmother stepped in and made them retreat. Although, they told her that they would keep coming back until they have Inari in their grasp. After they left, her grandmother told her that her parents could be alive. Now that Inari knew that there was a chance that they could be found, she was going to work hard to one day find them and rekindle their famous clan.

While she lived with her grandmother, she decided to attend Signal when she was 12 years old. She had attended Signal Academy to become a better fighter and to start her training of becoming a huntress. When Inari came home one night, she heard that Leo never came back home. From that day on, she knew that she couldn’t trust anyone as she hid her true self from the world. She also learned that she would need to watch her back incase his henchmen returned. Since then, Inari has only trusted her grandmother,her brother, her mentor and a few other people.

While she attended Signal Academy, she was also being meantored by Professor Light. He would help her grow her skills as a future huntress. After she graduated form Signal when she was 17, she gained an invitation to finally join Beacon next fall. She lives alone remotely outside of Signal Academy in a flat roof house only richer people would have as she trains for her first year at Beacon.

In Combat
Weapons: Inari’s weapons a pair of High Tech Dust Swords (HTDS) that make up Indigo StormCrest. The lighter version is named Tidal Crest while the darker version is named Lunar Storm. These blades are a way for Inari to combine her dust expertise with her newfound sword fighting skills with Professor Light. These blades have three different purposes:

 o      Red- Can send fire-based waves/ improve her attack strength
 * She can use them as regular swords with their sharp blades in close combat to slash and defend herself ((She can concentrate her aura on the blade for more damage.))
 * When she taps one of the dust crystals on her sword, the swords blade is surrounded with the Dust energy and have the capability of improving her attacks and overall speed in battle. They are powered by cut dust or powdered dust. She can either slash and pierce her opponents or send waves of dust energy. Depending on the dust color, she can display different effects.

 o      Light Blue/ Cyan – Can create a more powerful wave/ Ice Based wave

 o      Green-Yellow – Can Improve her speed/ Lightning wave

 o      Purple- Increases the wave’s strength and sword slash

o   Blue- Water based wave

She can use both forms to their full potential in battle after practicing under Professor Light when she attended Signal Academy.
 * Lastly and rarely, she can transform them into two pistols. They can power on regular bullets or dust enhanced bullets. She can use this to assist with movement in battle. However, they have special packs that are used. Those hold 20 bullets in total (10 of regular and 10 dust enhanced.) in each pack. She mostly uses red, cyan and purple dust for fire, ice and lightning effects.

Abilities: Since she trained at Signal Academy and by her parents, she has been trained to fight in multiple situations especially sword fighting and shooting. Her battle style can be described as graceful and accurate.

She shows great skill and evasion when she fights close to mid-range with her swords. As a dust caster, she can also use dust attacks either with one of her weapons or when they are both sheathed. She can be durable to being hit and somewhat fight hand to hand if needed until her teammates arrive or when she can grab one of her swords. Her gun shooting accuracy is average but can miss if she is not focused. Also, she has a high amount of aura which she uses to cover her swords.

Her biggest weakness would be below average stamina. She can do well with and without DUST but after a long fight, she will get exhausted unlike her teammates. She has enough endurance for the duration of the battle. Another occurrence of this is when she runs for a long time to a destination, she would be exhausted when the team get there. She also is a novice when it come to hand to hand combat (which she is trying to improve on as she attends Beacon) which can put her to a disadvantage if she is disarmed.

In every mission, she has only a limited amount of DUST and a backup ammo pack (magazine) with her so she would only use them if it was extremely necessary. While she is in combat with others, she can assist her allies with creating strategies to give her team an advantage on the enemy.

Aura: She is surrounded by light blue Aura. It provides protection, slight healing and sharpened senses. She also uses it to increase the damage she deals with her swords.

Semblance: Time Perception

Inari would basically, even though time passes at the speed it normally does, see time moving at 1/10th of its normal speed for a certain amount of time. So, if there was a sneak attack coming in that, if she saw in time (normal speed), they could dodge, but the attack happens too quickly. They would be able to see the attack just as it begins, and get out of the way. She could also use this to counter the enemy's moves and fit a counter attack in or to pull an ally away from an attack. Though the more it is used and the longer it is used for can wear down the person's aura a decent amount. Like when  Inari uses it, she could only use it three- four times in a fight even though she has high aura. If she uses it more than she are able to, then she would collapse from overuse after or in extreneous cases, during combat. It would take her a few hours for her to recharge so she could use it again. A known side effect is her change of eye color from blue to silver.

Trivia

 * When you translate her name, you get Moonlight Fox since Tsukiakari is translated to 'Moonlight' while Inari translates to 'Fox'. This works with Monty's rule since moonlight can be seen as a color (Yellow-White) and how foxes can be seen as red and orange or (for the artic fox) white.
 * Inari does know how to drive since her grandmother taught her when she was 16.
 * Great with technology and can use it to her advantage. (Especially computer hacking)
 * She is so graceful because of dancing and ballet practice she had when she was younger.
 * She is alluded to Disney's Fa Mulan since she mostly uses her swords in combat and how she deeply cares for others along with her clothing inspiration. Another reason is how she hides her true self until people get to know her and to also bring honor back to the Tsukiakari name when she rescues them.
 * She is also alluded to the sister in Grimm Fairytale's "Little Brother, Little Sister" because of how her and Leo reunite at Beacon and how they care for each other.
 * Her personality and can also be alluded from Sharon Reinsworth from Pandora Hearts.
 * Her color, Indigo Blue, is more formally called Indigo Dye or Dark Imperial Blue which is close to the color Midnight Blue. That color is a darker shade of Indigo and similar to Navy so her color is simply a darker blue. ((More info here))