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Amaterasu | Ōkami | expired reserve | 1/3
Contact Info:
Other Characters Played: none
Requested apartment: 10.1
Character Name: Amaterasu
Canon: Ōkami
Canon Point: Shortly after the end of the game, having just arrived in the Celestial Plane with Waka.
Background/History: here you are! Although Ammy has been in Haven previously, I'd like to bring her in fresh, with no memory of having been there or meeting its people before.
Amaterasu | Ōkami | expired reserve | 2/3
motherly
Amaterasu is referred to by many as "mother to us all" and she certainly acts the part. She sees everyone, whether they be human, animal, or something else entirely, as her own children. Her ultimate motivation is always her love for her world and her people, which shines out of her as generously, brightly, and unconditionally as the sun she controls.
While it is beneficial for her in the end, Ammy seems to genuinely enjoy helping out, even if the task at hand is dangerous. Four different times throughout her journey, she takes on the job of hunting down elusive demons. According to her travelling companion, Issun, she was "really eager to help" when a priestess asks her to accompany her on a dangerous mission in a sunken ship. No task is too beneath her - she'll help an old woman with her laundry or search for a man's lost pet as happily as she would if she were chasing demons.
Like any good mother, Ammy likes to know that her children are well fed and taken care of, and she's generous enough that she doesn't mind paying for supplies herself. One particular quest involves buying medicine a woman can't afford to cure her father. She'll stop to feed any wild animals she comes across. Food is very important to Ammy, as she'll eat just about any fruit or sweet she comes across, so it follows that she'd want everyone to take joy in it!
queenly
Amaterasu is queen of the heavens in her world, with the politeness to match. She'll stop to listen to everyone she comes across and sometimes sits down to listen more attentively. As mentioned above, Ammy enjoys helping out wherever she can, and she can't find out she's needed if she doesn't make it her business to know what the problems are. Turning down someone in need is something that never occurs to her, but she does openly display her displeasure with others at times. When she catches a whiff of an elderly man's rancid sake, she turns her face away and sighs, letting go of her held breath. At the beginning of her journey, Ammy didn't much like Issun, and when he decided he was going to stick around with her, she whined and tried to shake him off of her.
But even a goddess's patience has its limits. Amaterasu will absolutely not tolerate disrespect to herself or her friends. When a man comments that she "doesn't look very smart" near the beginning of her journey, she growls and snarls at him as she sinks into her battle stance. She reacts similarly in her first encounter with Issun. Issun, being of a species no larger than most bugs and a bit of a pervert, had been hiding away in a friend's kimono, and as soon as he jumps out, Ammy snaps to attention and begins growling. When he rudely throws a scroll onto her face in an attempt to show off his art, she repays him by swallowing him and then spitting him back out. Ammy isn't just intolerant of disrespect, but she'll repay it in kind if she feels it goes too far.
young at heart
Despite all her status and divine powers, Ammy is still essentially a big, friendly dog. She loves friendly pats, treats (particularly bones), meeting new people, and digging up peoples' gardens. She loves to play a good game, whether it be running a race, defeating enemies within a time limit, or rolling snowballs. She's gentle and eternally loving, but the goddess can't turn down an opportunity to beat someone else's record the same way she just can't refuse to help someone in need.
Ammy has endless energy that she uses to fight demons, restore the world, and help her people, but she also loves her sleep. Immediately after being awakened from a 100 year sleep to her world shrouded in darkness, her first action is to... yawn, lie down, and attempt to go back to sleep. It certainly didn't help that the friend that had awakened her was taking a long time to say something very simple. When nothing particularly important or exciting is happening, Ammy's attention tends to drift until/unless it is brought back to the matter at hand.
Issun's personal motto "leap before you look" becomes her motto as well during her time with him. Her curiosity and desire to explore (and dig) often leads her to hidden treasures and divine underground springs, but they can also lead her into unexpected dangerous battles with huge demons. Ammy doesn't see far past her snout and hardly ever plans in advance, preferring to charge ahead and do any thinking she needs to do on her paws.
passionate
Once Amaterasu sets her mind to a goal, there's nothing that can stand in her way of achieving it. For example, early in the game, a huge boulder blocks the only road out of the tiny Kamiki Village. Unable to get rid of it herself - she's lost many of her abilities after a century of inaction - Ammy seeks out the strongest of the villagers to move it instead. He'd much rather sleep and tells her to go away. So what does Ammy do? She grabs him, tosses him onto her back, and carries him to the boulder herself.
She trusts her heart before she trusts her head, a trait that's truly a double-edged sword in a world of demons who don't play fair. She'll stop to help any one of her children in need and since she loves and trusts everyone automatically, she can easily be tricked into furthering someone else's schemes. The demon Ninetails disguised itself as a human priestess named Rao, and strung Ammy along in the search for what it claimed was a powerful weapon against evil, the Fox Rods. When the Fox Rods are found, "Rao" insists that the goddess and her companion hand them over, so she can take them to the queen of the nearby city. Issun hesitates, knowing that carrying such a powerful weapon will likely make "Rao" a huge target for demons to go after. It's Ammy who trusts "Rao" enough to personally toss the demon its most valuable weapon. The consequences disastrous, and Ammy has to work tirelessly to undo the damage her naïveté costs.
Her loving nature is easily her greatest weakness, but is also far and away her most potent strength. If Ammy didn't support every person she met with her whole heart, she would be lacking many of her most important allies. When her powers are stripped away from her in the final battle against Yami, the Emperor of Darkness, it is only through the faith all of her people have in her that she is able to not only survive, but to regain the full strength she has been without for her entire journey.
Amaterasu | Ōkami | expired reserve | 3/3
alpha female
physical abilities
master painter
Celestial Brush abilities
goddess
divine abilities
dogmom
pure headcanon (to be allowed or disallowed as per one's wishes)
Items/Weapons: ☀ Solar Flare, her most powerful mirror
☀ Thunder Edge, her most powerful sword
☀ A peace bell, which keeps demons/monsters at bay.
Amaterasu | Ōkami | expired reserve | no wait I lied 4/3
Sample Entry Two: The stench of evil hits her long before she sees it.
Luckily Issun seems just as surprised as she is. She wouldn't have liked being the only one caught off guard. Of course she had suspected Nippon was in a bad state - Sakuya wouldn't have woken her up if everything was peaceful - but this...
She lets out a low whine as Issun points out the withered Guardian Sapling in the distance. Easily one half of the once-beautiful Shinshu Field is blanketed in an unholy aura like black writhing clouds rimmed with red. This was /her/ land and it was /her/ duty to protect it, and although she knew that the damage had been done long before she had awakened, she can't help but feel the weight of guilt on her shoulders.
Her attention turns back to the Poncle slowly as he starts to talk about the Sapling. "Maybe the natural beauty here would return if we revived it... but how the heck would we do that anyway?" he muses.
Amaterasu snorts through her nose softly in reply. Before her one hundred year slumber, she could easily revive the Guardian Sapling with a quick wave of her brush. But she knows that there's no use dwelling on the past when there were urgent tasks to be done in the present.
Still, it is rather infuriating that demons had encroached this far into her land. Luckily the rotten smell of demons comes to her on the wind, and when she turns to look, a demonic scroll floats by atop a hill.
She takes off at full speed for it, with Issun yelping about giving him a warning next time from her back. But she wasn't going to slow down for his sake. Getting rid of demons and being able to take out her frustration at the same time was an opportunity she wouldn't miss.
-> ACCEPTED
re: Note