Gensoukyou:Yamame Kurodani

Background
She began life as a simple spider, born inside the village. Her first home was that of a family of three, one teenaged child and two parents. She made her home in the teenagers bedroom, she was spotted in the corner, though no mind was payed at the particular time. The next day, after she was spotted, the teenager grew ill. Though she was no longer there by the time this happened, she had moved on to another location, the house next door. The parents of the teenager had seen her, and had a minor thought that she was responsible, and told their neighbors to be careful, saying “The spider made my boy sick!”. Yamame had found her way into the bedroom of the nearest neighbor, where she made a web to catch bugs, though she remained hidden from sight, and the people simply went to sleep. The next day, she was already gone, off to find a different location for her web, as to lay another trap for a meal. The morning they woke up, the wife herself was sick as well, with the same illness that the boy next door was suffering from. The husband made the same story, only making the particular neighborhood (and others in the town) partially frightened of the spider, enough as to make her gain power, as well as sentience. Even a "Human" form, though she wasn’t very good at performing both the shift, and movement in her human form.

She went around like that for a time, visiting homes, making an inhabitant sick while only slightly revealing herself, though she grew bored. It didn’t feel right. People were already afraid of falling ill, so why push them to the point where they would kill the sick instead of make them better? It wouldn’t make sense to do that, then you get less people to make sick. After that point, she only made a disease and spread it around every so often, instead of all the time (somewhat similar to the flu). She decided to take on her more human appearance as dominant, as well as coming clean to what she did. She simply said that she was responsible, and provided proof, though the punishment was much more severe than what she anticipated. She was forced to flee from the humans, and hide, to allow her more of a chance to get away.

She found refuge in a cave, where she clung to the ceiling of a particularly hard to reach area until the humans had left. She constructed webs in the cave, though only temporary ones, thinking that the humans would be back again. She stayed there for just over a day, before moving on again, searching for another secluded area that she could hunker down in and call home. Eventually, she came to live in the tunnel/cave system that lead to the underworld, specifically in a side tunnel, just before Parsee’s bridge going on, just after coming out (this will be covered more momentarily). She stayed there for a few years on her own, observing the bridge, making a nest, and capturing prey for basic sustenance, releasing a disease to the outside world once per year, either by contaminating the water, or the food supply.

One day, she noticed a human wandering into the tunnel, looking angered, hateful. At first, she paid the human no mind, thinking some Youkai or animal would get her, if she didn’t go home soon. Dismissing the thoughts, she returned to the center of her nest to rest, and wait for something to wander into the web. After a few more days, she made her way to the mouth of her own little tunnel again, and much to her surprise, the human still sat at the bridge, the rage, and the hate had faded, and in it’s stead was jealousy. As she watched the girl, she couldn't help but have the very same feelings begin to well up inside her, though she pushed them down as best she could, as she turned back around, and returned to digging out the tunnel that was her home even further. When she returned to the mouth of her tunnel again, the human was still there. It continued like this for just over a week. She decided to show mercy, seeing as how the animals and Youkai avoided her. Yamame, feeling a sort of kinship with the human, as well as taking pity, gathered some bugs, rodents, birds, a meager meal, but a meal nonetheless.

Things continued like that, for a time, Yamame mostly ignoring Parsee’s increasingly hostile attitude. But, when Parsee finally jumped the gap from human to Youkai, Yamame withdrew, a sense of a sort of fear, self preservation, and a feeling of accomplishment (seeing as she helped to feed Parsee). After that, Yamame returned to her usual life, digging her tunnels, making her nest, and distributing a yearly disease.

After a while, she noticed Parsee had a guest, a male human, from the look of it. She also noticed that the Youkai had started to calm down a bit, a thought running through her mind, that maybe she had calmed down? She decided to wait a bit, to see how things turned out. As she watched, she decided it would be best to wait for Parsee’s friend to leave of his own accord, figuring that the Youkai will think she’s being jealous. With the note in her mind to check on Parsee every so often, she went back to digging out her home, and building her nest.

After a long while, the man eventually left and never came back. Yamame eventually started offering Parsee meals again, as well as talking, where possible, slowly warming back up to the other Youkai again.

Power/Combat
The Manipulation of Disease, the highest aptitude is in infectious diseases.

The Spider’s natural arsenal, webs and venom. When in her human-like form, the web glands are located on her wrists, ankles, and in her mouth. Her fangs are mostly suppressed when she is in her human shape, however they are still there, but delivering the toxin contained within can be harder to do, depending on the target (the venom is a paralytic venom, and only in large doses can prove lethal). The webbing is of a tougher nature than that of your common household spider, allowing it to capture and hold stronger creatures. If she spends the time on it, she can coat the web in her own venom, as well as planting small thorn like structures into it, to scrape the skin and apply the venom.

Yamame tends to fight making heavy use of her skills in web weaving, her Danmaku patterns follow this, in having a trap, or web-like appearance. When fighting she will also make use of her webbing, as well as venom, if the opportunity were to present itself.

Notice: I’ll work on fleshing the aspects of this out later, as of the writing of this, I can’t think logically enough to make this in a manner that makes sense.

Personality
She tends to be somewhat easy going, most of the time being a bit reclusive, as most spiders tend to be, though she is not so reclusive as to hide away at all times, or react violently to people entering her area of living. She does enjoy fighting, though she does not purposefully seek a fight over everything else, and won’t fight solely for the purpose of fighting.

Spellcards

 * Trap Sign "Capture Web"
 * Spider "Cave Spider's Nest"
 * Small Thread "Kandata's Rope"
 * Poison Sign "Japanese Foliage Spider"
 * Miasma Sign "Filled Miasma"
 * Miasma Sign "Unexplained Fever"