Kemuri

Background
Some few hundred years ago, two young girls were huddled around a campfire. These girls had run away from their home, their village, as their parents were killed and even their entire village was razed. The two girls were friends and had nothing but each other to care for. Though, they were young, weak, and knew nothing of collecting food or surviving. They only knew to keep the fire burning and try to find help when they can. Despite this, one girl suffered from starvation, and died as a result. The other girl was terrified of the same fate befalling her, and refused to allow it. Hunger had brought her to desperation, and so she tried to cook the corpse's flesh, so as to eat it. The thought sickened her, but with the fate of starvation staring her down, she had little choice. Even in her best attempts, though, hungry animals smelled the flesh cooking, and found the girl, taking her down and devouring her with little effort, leaving the other corpse to burn in the fire. The spirit of the girl who fell to such a horrible fate as starvation inhabited the fire, and as the fire soon died, only smoke remained, forming into a youkai of smoke - an enenra. This enenra took onto herself the name of the girl she did not even know - the name of Kemuri.

This youkai cared little for how she had come about, and wandered aimlessly throughout the forests of Japan - preying on humans and living among other youkai. She'd made quite the impression on both human and youkai alike, especially when she had found herself in early Gensoukyou. The village know her well, and try to attack her at first sight in the hopes of scaring off the timid youkai before she got the advantage. Over the years, she had learned herself how to make up for her weak nature, often attacking weak points that she found on the bodies of these humans. She experimented greatly, finding ways to harm humans without killing them, leaving her to be able to devour the flesh while it was at its warmest.

This is pretty much the extent of her backstory. She's simply a feral youkai, nothing quite notable.

Smoke
Kemuri is a being made of smoke, as such, she is capable of manipulating the aforementioned smoke in various ways; ranging from creating a nearly blinding fog to solidifying the smoke into objects such as clothing, needles, and even creating a sort of "costume" to disguise herself with. She can also "feel" things with her smoke, often using this as a way to see even when the area is shrouded in blinding smoke.

Being made of smoke also means that Kemuri is very light, only ever weighing as much as ten pounds. However, her mass can change depending on her diet or what other forms of smoke are present. This lightweight body allows her to be quick, agile, and above all; quiet. This works well with her preference of stalking her prey and using hit and run tactics to take it down, as well as getting away if need be.

There are some downsides to this ability, though. One such downside is that the smoke does not favor her own sight above anyone else. When she's in an area that she has shrouded with smoke, she is as unable to see as anyone else would be, though this is made up for by the fact that she is able to "feel" with her smoke, as well as her having a strong sense of smell. Another downside to this is that she gives off a very distinctive smell that varies depending on her diet. The normal smell for her, though, is maple, as that is her favorite "food".

REM:"Rapid Eye Movement"
REM is just as the name suggests; Kemuri is capable of moving her eyes very quickly as well as analyze the things she sees just as quickly. She can focus her eyes on at least a hundred different things within less than a second. This allows her to not only know her surroundings well at a single glance, but her opponents as well. Her eyes are so quick, in fact, they can see the muscles in a person's arm flexing as they go to move it and react to it before the person can even begin to actually move it.

The only major downside to this ability is the lack of use it gets. This ability works best in a more direct style of fighting where there are things to react to, however this in itself is contrary to Kemuri's shy nature, as she would rather hide and be blind with smoke than see anything and be vulnerable.

Combat Style
Kemuri is very weak physically and magically, though what she lacks in both cases, she easily makes up for in her speed, agility, and ability to take advantage of her opponents weaknesses - the most common form being blindness by smoke. Her body is very light, so she is able to quickly and silently move around her opponent, strike, and be gone as quickly as she came, most commonly under the cover of thick smoke, leaving little time for her opponents to react.

The most common style of fighting she uses alongside the aforementioned "hit and run" style tactics is a sort of self-taught knife-hand fighting style mixed with accurately thrown weapons such as needles. This style of fighting is composed of quick, accurate strikes to weak points of her opponents body - pressure points. This goes hand and hand, even, with her REM ability, as she will often times find weaknesses in her opponent that she will then exploit later by focusing on it. This style of fighting has, ultimately, led her to being known as the "Paralyzing Smoke Youkai", as many times attacks from her will aim to paralyze opponents, rather than outright kill them. She seems to even prefer eating live humans anyway.

Needless to say, Kemuri is much opposed to direct confrontation, and for good reason. Her skill lies not in brute, savage force that is so often popular among youkai, rather it lies in her own "weakness". Though her power level is low, it should be noted that she is certainly anything but an easy fight.

Personality
Clever, vicious, and dangerous all describe Kemuri quite well, especially to the humans that know of her, though all this can only be seen under the cover of smoke. In truth, beside her bloodthirsty, youkai nature, lies a very timid nature. Kemuri suffers from some manner of scopophobia, in which means that she has a distinct fear of being seen or looked at for any period of time. This is most prevalent towards people she does not know well, which ((during the time this is being written)) is everyone. Knowing this, it's of no wonder that she prefers the guise of smoke, though even if she were to not have this phobia, her body structure would still call for the smoke.

Beyond even this timid nature lies a kind-hearted, mildly childish young girl, though this is shrouded by everything else that litters her appearance at first a glance. Though humans are mostly food to her, there have been very few that she has spared or seen kindness in, and even more so does she see this kindness in animals or other youkai. However, again her timid nature usually prevents such relationships to occur, let alone last.

Other than this, Kemuri is your common, simple-minded youkai. She knows little of any given language, and even if she did, she is much too quiet to actually make use of such a tool. Her mind is most often on food, hunting, or watching things from afar out of pure curiosity. Lately, she's even become more interested in such curiosities, and even more daring as a result. When she is not hunting, she may be found occasionally watching you or anyone else that may interest her.

Should someone try to confront Kemuri, they will quickly be met by many needles pointed their way, or a shroud of smoke that will allow the youkai to escape. She is very defensive, though, and will not hesitate to attack back if attacked, damned be scopophobia. However, catching her in such a position that she cannot stay hidden whilst attacking, she can easily panic, and even mentally collapse, should she become trapped in a bad situation.

Major
Karutate: Kemuri's best, and perhaps only, friend. They had met once, quite briefly, but then again when they were both faced by a strange plant youkai. Kemuri took it upon herself to defend this fellow youkai from this creature, and managed to get away with the snail in tow. Since then they often stuck around each other, sharing a sort of symbiotic relationship. Kemuri would take down branches from trees Karutate could not easily reach, giving her the leaves while she, herself, ate the wood branch. They are rarely seen without one or the other, and may even sometimes be found sleeping, cuddled up against each other to fight off the cold, or simply because it was comfortable and fun. Needless to say, Kemuri is very protective of the snail, not seeing her fit to protect herself. Often Karutate has to talk Kemuri down, and do the talking on her behalf due to Kemuri's lack of proper communication skills. She almost seems like a guard dog, rather than a friend, sometimes.

Trivia

 * The name Kemuri literally means "Smoke"


 * Naturally, Kemuri has long, smoke-like hair, though the length will often vary depending on how much smoke she is using.
 * While using a smoke screen, her hair becomes incredibly short, only reaching down enough to partially cover her ears, though using needles may only take away a small length.
 * When weak, her hair will most likely be about as short as when she is using a smoke screen. This will often embarrass her, though, as it is a tell-tale sign of her weakened state. It will, however, grow back as she recovers.


 * Kemuri has a language that seems unique to her kind, a form a smoke signals. She will often use this in place of using spoken language.


 * Kemuri feeds off humans as normal youkai, though she will also enjoy any kind of fresh wood.
 * Her favorite "flavor" of wood is maple, though it is hard to find said flavor. If she were presented maple wood, though, she would find it very hard to turn it down.