Name :: Haruka Kato (Calandra Redwind)
Age :: 850
Height :: 6’0”
Species :: Traygon
Gender :: Female (is gender fluid; will not correct being called male; considers herself both, sometimes more male than female)
Personality :: Ruka has a gentle disposition and entirely judgement free when it comes to other people. She has seen too much of life, experienced too much of it, to cast pointed fingers and blame. She has also never fully recovered from the first love of her life; she is over him, but she acknowledges that the scars still linger within. It is why her brief physical love affairs with people, men, women, and otherwise, tend to involve her being both emotionally and physically dedicated—as if they were more than they actually are to one another during the time they are together. It’s as if Ruka cannot fully commit to loving another person completely and instead gives into a half love with any given person she is with at the moment.
She also loves stories, knowing people and reads them fairly easily in a short amount of time in their company. Sleeping with her entails an exchange of stories between her and her lover, something personal and gives her and that person’s time together more meaning.
Because of this she and her sister do not always get along. Traygons are innately monogamous. They find a life partner, get to know them—sometimes a courtship will last a hundred years or more—and then they bind themselves to one another mentally and emotionally until one or the other dies. Nothing is hidden after that and their minds are open to one another. It is not entirely taboo—Ruka’s habit of leaving a trail of lovers and there is no Traygon law against it; she will not be judged for it—but it is almost entirely against Traygon nature to do so. The death of a bonded life mate can cause the one left behind, after all, to commit suicide. Blade believes Ruka is torturing herself by going against the nature of their species and wants her to either give it up or find happiness; which is not shocking, given that Blade herself has known the grief of losing a life mate herself.
Ruka smiles easily, but the expression is always soft. It’s rare to get a full grin from her and more rare to get anything more than a chuckle from her. She’s almost sensual in nature—feline-esque and will sleep with almost anyone.
Appearance :: Silver-white hair and cool blue eyes. Ruka is lithe and beautifully aristocratic in the face, but also muscular and her body frame naturally leans towards masculine. She has knife and burn scars all over her body below her neck to her wrists and ankles. The only parts of her that aren’t scarred are generally the visible ones when she wears a suit. Her chest is flat and entirely bear of nipples because of damage her ex betrothed did to her. She is not afraid of people seeing her scars, but she does tend to hide most of them aside from a few on her chest when she wears her dress shirt open a few buttons.
Her clothing tends to be black with lace cuffs and a collar. Formal wear, always. Her hair is short and a lose array of strands that sometimes falls into her eyes.
History :: Ruka was born in an entirely different dimension, or realm as she refers to it—and all other dimensions. She lived among a tribe of her people, traveling in a manner similar to Native Americans: going from one climate to the next with the changing of the seasons. Her people were primarily pacifists and not all of them traveled from one place to the next as her tribe did. Some tribes lived and remained in cities; however, those who did not tended to move about in order to not overtax any one occupied area of land.
Ruka became an acolyte in the temple of Draco when she was not quite yet a teenager, learning how to heal and tend the mind of others who needed her. When she reached her twenties she began her training to take over temple leadership and did so by the time she was roughly fifty years old. Because of her silver-white hair and ice blue eyes, both of which so resembled Draco’s, and because of her gentle disposition, Ruka came to be revered as something of a goddess herself. Her people speculated that she was in fact the daughter of Draco, or at the very least a chosen child that he gave his blessing to during her conception. Ruka was not fond of this notion, but never fully addressed it either.
When Ruka was just over a hundred years old her mother became pregnant again—another daughter. It was around this time that the chief of her tribe was reviewing a prophecy that was soon to come to fruition about a warrior among their people. As head priestess she was required to assist in confirming who the warrior would be, consulting with Draco and so forth. When her sister was born it was discovered that she bore the mark of Draco’s chosen paladin. It was confirmed when Draco himself came to see the girl and named her at the behest of Ruka’s parents.
Ruka’s sister, Blade, began her training from the moment she could both walk and speak. When she was five, she was sent away to continue with a more rigorous regiment. Ruka went on with her life from there, receiving updates about her sister and letters from her now and then. Part of her worried if sending her away was the right course of action, but she trusted the chieftains of her people and let it go. She had other matters to worry about, especially in regards to the man who had been her betrothed for nigh fifty years.
But he was not the man she imagined him to be. Roughly five years after her sister was sent away he confronted her about his fears, his worries, all the things he’d been hiding—the plan he’d been working towards since the birth of her sister. Her betrothed was extremely intelligent when it came to the Traygon body, the sciences, and even magic—a practice that was not well studied or done among her people; he was also a well-practiced warrior and fairly good at the mental arts that came naturally to their people. He was jealous that her sister had been chosen along all of their people. He had thought it would be him; it had been what he’d been working towards his whole life. He confided in her that he wanted to get revenge against Draco and that the only way to do so would be by killing his children—their people. All save for the two of them. Ruka saw the insanity in him, his broken and torn mind. She tried to reason with him, but he would not waver. When she would not budge he attacked her and she was too heartbroken to fight back. He mutilated her body with a knife and a hot brand, claiming that no other would want or love her afterward the way he had wanted her and loved her—that her beauty had been ruined. When he left her be she took the time to tend to her wounds, healing them as best she could, and returned to her people. They tried to mend to her, the healers did, but much of her was too badly wounded. Knowing was her betrothed planned, she ushered a great exodus and gathered her people. She did not have the means or time to send a warning to her sister, and instead gathered what tribes she could on the way before her betrothed’s virus took hold. Some of her people died on the way—her mother and father. She held off her grief and eventually made it to the mountains and to a secret stronghold that would protect and hide her people. It was here that she took care of them for ten years.
After Blade fulfilled her duties and slew the man that was Ruka’s betrothed they left the mountains and settled near the ocean, creating a new home near an inactive volcano that houses dragon eggs. The Traygons came under the protection of the dragons and in turn tended to the eggs and hatchlings of their children. The new city was called Vayne and Ruka became its leader for a time when Blade advocated her role in taking charge. But she was growing weary, much like her sister—who was still dealing with the loss of loved ones and the results of a ‘war’. Ruka had also not fully mourning the loss of her parents, those of her people who did not live through the attack, nor had she fully tended to the shattered heart her betrothed had left her with—the emotional and physical scars. Part of her was emotionally fractured and she fully recognized that; she wanted time—away. She sought Draco’s counsel and asked him for the draconic technology that she knew dragon’s had that would allow her to travel to different realms—to see different worlds. She wanted—needed—a break and a time to regain herself away from those who knew what she’d been through, from those who expected her to continue helping them. Draco reluctantly gave her the technology and Ruka traveled to realms where time passed on more quickly than it did in her home realm. Sometimes a year in another realm was a week in her own.
Time passed and she visited her home now and then. She changed her name from Calandra Redwind to Ruka Kato and began to habit of acquiring stories along with her passing love affairs—a point of contention between her and Blade when her sister chose to visit her. She is not sure when and if she will ever return home permanently, but for now she is content to travel from one realm to another and live a life filled with temporary love.
Powers/Weapons/Skills :: Ruka, like all of her kind, is a natural telepath and telekinetic. She can manipulate the physical world with her mind and enter people’s thoughts if given permission; not getting permission goes against Draco’s edict and is akin to mental rape. She also has a sense of the physical world—like a radar—because of her aura and usually knows what’s going on within a given area. At least she does physically. She is a master of the brain, emotions, and thoughts. She can heal the mind and it is almost impossible for her to forget a moment in her life, though it does take a moment to recall it. To look in her own head one might imagine a vast filing center—cabinets and cabinets of information and memories. She also has some skill with a sword and her own is a gift from Draco, made of his own godly scale.
Possible Theme Songs ::
Sometimes I feel like a girl~... sometimes I don't~
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