Name:
Sakurako Song
Gender:
Female
Age:
19 years
Species:
Human Wujen (Asian Sorceress)
Family:
Lives with her father and his two wives, and the combined total of seven children. Of which she is a middle child from her father's second wife.
Personality:
Sakurako is a quiet child, though not without having her moments of loudness. Like the element she calls friend, she can be at times like the calm, still pool, and yet at other times, the raging sea or the gurgling brook. To her three younger siblings she is caretaker and teller of stories, to her older siblings, an annoyance that was hard to catch.
Sakurako has a mischievous streak in her that leads her to using her skills for....less respectable hobbies according to her parents. A sibling could wake up to a cold wet bed, or find a fish staring at them on their pillow. Still, she does have discipline, once she sets her mind on something, she sticks with it. She is an avid practitioner of her craft and spends a couple hours a day by the courtyard pool practicing.
History:
It started with an adventurer by the name of Cheng Li. He was like the typical adventurer, off wandering roads unknown in search of glory, honor and riches. He fought in many battles against man and beast alike and he even fought in a war!
Somewhere along the way in all that fun, he did an incredibly stupid thing. He tickled a sleeping dragon. No, really he did! It was a big dragon, of the most ugly and putrid yellow hide Cheng had ever seen. You might be wondering if he had lost his head, and indeed he wondered the same thing. All of this to rescue a damsel in distress? He really ought to find who ever started that and teach them what it meant to be "in distress".
But there was a woman in need of help and his moral code said he couldn't leave her there. At least he learned that dragons do indeed like ketchup, he just didn't stick around to find out if it liked a side of human to go with that ketchup. Anyways, long story short, he rescued the lady and discovered that she was one of the emperor's beloved daughters.
Low and behold, he had it made. An adventurer's dream come true! Quicker than you can say "bless you!" he found himself with not one, but two wives, ennobled (and the most important) with land and holdings! It goes with out saying that Cheng retired happily from adventuring and began to work on a lesser dream of his. That of a family. After all, someone had to listen to his tales. Thus was Sakurako born, the first daughter of Cheng's beloved second wife. Here did Cheng's story end, and Sakurako's began.
Sakurako lead a rather sheltered life compared to that of her father's but that was okay for her. At the tender age of ten months old, her parents received a rather wet wake up call one night. Sakurako was hungry, and no one was getting up! So in her crying, the water in the air began to coalesce into a watery ball above her parents bed. I don't need to say any more on this I believe.
So she grew in a happy family, the first in over three centuries to show power of any kind in the long line of Cheng's family history. Her mothers said that no one in their families had ever been recorded having the ability to manipulate the elements. Though she was the first, Sakurako was by no means the last, two of her younger siblings showed the same ability.
Current Goal/Purpose:
To master her abilities to a point where her mother and father will let her go explore the world.
Appearance:
Coming in at a petit five foot and two inches Sakurako is rather proud of her willowy frame. Hands and feet are a dainty size as is fitting for a young lady and her nails are well kept. Her hair is a midnight black and is kept long, it is often coiled in elaborate knots with decorative hair pins keeping it all together. Almond eyes, a small nose, and lips quick to smile adorn a pale face often free of powders and paint. She prefers loose clothing in colors of blue, though she does have a wardrobe full of both plain and simple kimonos and elaborate ones.