Qixia, Qilin

[Shouriko]

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Name Qixia
Age ~250 years
Gender Female
Species Qilin/Kirin
Ethnicity N/A
Height 3' 10" true morph top of back, 5' human morph top of head
Occupation delivering karmic justice and assisting in maintaining the balance of good and evil
Residence N/A

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Physical Description
In her true morph, Qixia is mainly deer-like with the mane, tail, and mouth of a dragon. She has feathering at the back of her pasterns and from her lower chest to her navel. Her eyes are big and a dark brown, with streaks of amber, looking very much like a Tiger Eye jem. Her coloring is copper and bronze, shades of brown to auburn that shimmer in the light and darkened with tints of green. She has a velvety fur over all her body and scales on her cheek and jaw, across her shoulders and haunches, and along the front of her legs. It is her scales that sparkle and shimmer the most, although her long hair has a metallic gleam to it in bright light. Qixia's most individual feature are her horns, as they generally are for all of her kind. The pair of them align along the center of her head, the smaller in the front and the larger behind with the beginning of a new branch. They are ivory with yellowing in the grooves most commonly in those closer to her skin. She would be considered small by others of her species... if she ever met any of them.

Art by Shouriko

In her human morph, Qixia appears as a short statured woman with exceptionally long, reddish-brown hair; hair she keeps pulled back in a long tail but for bangs that overhang her face. Her eyes are bright and golden brown, often going long periods without blinking. She has a warm olive complexion to her skin and has many freckles across her body but particularly on her cheeks. What gives away her species are two flat ivory discs in her forehead, one ¼" diameter and the other 1" diameter. Her face is round and her general body shape is rectangular and slab-sided, she lacks the typical feminine curves of most mature women, which may suggest she is young yet for her kind. The clothing that accompanies her human morph is simple and understated, juniper green and mulberry red and heartwood brown. She has no shoes, but a hardy canvas on her feet that splits her large toe from the rest, when she has anything on her feet at all. There's a cloak that covers most of her that allows her to be an unremarkable person in a crowd, easily overlooked or quickly forgotten if seen. This is the current perfected morph that Qixia takes on when she wishes to walk amongst other humans and humanoids.


Personality
Qixia should be a serious and solemn creature considering what she would say is her occupation, but she's far more light-hearted and good-natured. Perhaps she is still young for her kind, but Qixia is very open-minded and receptive to those around her. It may make her appear naïve and impressionable, when what she really is very observant and simply curious. She has a hunger for learning and one of her favorite past-times is to sit and watch the lives and interactions of other living beings. There is good and there is evil in the world, and yet the good may still commit acts of evil and the evil may act in the interest of good; it is not so simple as black and white.
There is a fondness in her for all living creatures large and small, and she takes great care to be respectful of all life, hovering over grasses so as not to trample over them and refraining from eating the flesh of another animal. Every life is precious and each has value and can impact the life of another.
She is always awed by the things she sees humans and humanoids create from the humble sandal to the luxurious gowns of noble ladies to delicately woven tapestries; they may be her favorite living being because of their ability to create. She particularly enjoys watching their reactions and their emotions and pondering what it would be like if she were more like them. They also disappoint her, because they cause so much harm and pain and they are the beings she most frequently doles out karmic justice to. For a creature with so much capability to be and do good, they tend towards violence and destruction all too often.
Qixia lives by her instincts. She'll say that she feels a pull to go here or there, as fickle as the weather, moving quickly from one place to the next. Yet once she gets to wherever it is she feels the need to be, there's always some little something to do. Whether it be to dole out a little luck to a farmer who's had some bad luck but works earnestly or deliver a humbling experience for someone whose ego has given them a big head, Qixia quietly fulfills her task. Little things so insignificant they might barely be noticed but for the individual themselves. Qixia always feels satisfied once she's accomplished these things, but...
But there's a longing deep inside of her. Qixia doesn't know what it is exactly. Emotions are complicated and always appeared to be more for humans than for her own kind, a curious facet of humanity that is hard to understand. It's as if there's some greater purpose out there she yearns to fulfill, or someone she needs to find and remain alongside. Despite this feeling, Qixia continues to follow the pull of the world's strings.
She does have a problem with being a bit shy. Qixia may have been watching and blending in with various cultures, learning their languages, but she's never really interacted with any of them. Her instincts tell her not to get attached, to be distant, and make herself insignificant or easily forgettable. It leaves her feeling a little lonely, if she has the feeling rightly named. But more so, she wouldn't know what to do or say if ever she did have the chance to stay in one place for longer than a day or two and interact with the humans and humanoids she so much enjoys to observe.
If ever she were to form an attachment, rest assured that Qixia will be a loyal and dutiful friend. Although she may never commit an act of evil or harm to the benefit of her attachments, save to preserve their life, she will make every effort to keep the scales of karma level and fair.


Magic/Abilities
Flight/hover
Elemental manipulation (fire breathing and rain making)
Karma manipulation (luck mainly)
Human morph
Immortal (can be slaughtered and if corrupted will waste away and perish)


Relationships
None... yet


History
She wasn't born, per se. She hatched. All alone. On a mountain summit somewhere. Qixia remembers sunlight and clouds, moss and stone, but there was nothing else. No one else. How she knew to call herself Qixia, she couldn't tell you, only that the name bubbled into her mind like water from a freshly dug spring.
Time passes differently for one of the Qilin or Kirin, of whatever name they may be given. It was no different for Qixia. Each day, each moon, each season, each year... they passed by with little consequence. She kept mainly to the mountains in her early life, descending into alpine forests and then to rolling hills and out to broad, grassy plains. There were many creatures to behold and learn of. Instinct told her to keep moving on and eventually Qixia set her sights on her first human. Then more intelligent lifeforms and varied cultures. Her purpose became more clear the further into the world she travelled.
How long has it been now? Qixia has no count. Generations of birds have surely flown by and lifetimes of the intriguing humans. Yet ever onward she goes, sometimes returning to places she had visited before, now greatly changed from her memory of the place. At some point she learned how to take on a human morph so that she might blend into the towns and cities she visits.
Qixia feels that there's something big coming. Her instincts are telling her to be ready for it and that she must be there when the time comes. She's been wandering rather aimlessly and lingering closer to humans more than she ever has before, rather than returning to the wilds. Qixia is certain that she will be in the right place, at the right time if she just continues to amble. Her instincts have never failed her before!


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  Qixia enters the domain of Mulciber and for the first time in ever has a conversation

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