Dazai Yuka
Full Name: Dazai Yuka
Birthplace: Saga Prefecture, Japan
Birthdate: October 25, 1581
Age: 26
Height: 5' 3"
Weight: 155 lbs.
Blood Type: B
Weapon: Iai Sword
Weapon Name: Sente-hisshou
Fighting Style: Shinden Tsushima-ryu Battoujutsu
Family: Miyajima Mitsuke (Mentor)

"Chinese Sorcerery and a terrible fear drive this woman, who conceals in her smile more shadowy depths than a swiftly-flowing winter river.
Her mind burdened by grief and doubt, she continues her journey, endlessly searching for that which will bring her peace."

Dazai Yuka is unusual for a kappa, in many ways. Though much of her youth was spent as is normal for a kappa, generally regarded as somewhere between a nuisance and a menace to those in the village, stealing food and alcohol, peeking up kimonos, and occasionally attempting to drown a horse or drag a woman into the water to molest her. Her presence became so annoying that a traveling Buddhist monk, Miyajima Mitsuke, was called in to drive her away. At his hands, despite her superior strength, she was easily defeated, and forced to apologize and promise to leave the villagers at peace from then on.

Outraged by her defeat, she mulled in the river, sullenly, for three days, then gathered enough river fish to trade the village for a wooden bowl and a strip of cloth. She filled the bowl and tied it to her head upside-down to prevent herself from drying out, and left to hunt down this monk; She had made no such vow to leave Mitsuke himself unmolested. She caught up with him within a week, and then traveled at his side for a month, as crude, rude, and violent as she could manage, intending to embarrass and torment the monk with her behavior. Instead, he bore it stoically, and eventually his noble spirit of character and the tales of the Buddha he told began to have an effect. She began to behave in a more polite fashion, wore a kimono and sandals, and listened to his sermons. The monk and his 'tame' Kappa drew in quite a bit of attention, and over the course of what grew to become many years of travel together, he educated her, teaching her to read, to cook and clean, teaching her Buddhist ways and the sword-arts of his sohei order. She did her best to temper her wild and rough youkai nature and become a woman worthy of his love.

Mitsuke's sudden illness death came as a horrible shock to the kappa. She had begun to think of him as invincible, a teacher and master, and his meager funeral and burial, too poor to afford much ceremony and attended by no-one else in the small village they where staying at, effected her strongly. She became terrified of dying, alone and forgotten, as her master had. In her grief, she turned to dark sorcereries, the arts of Chinese Alchemy that would let her escape death and become a Shijie Xian, a Corpse Untie Immortal. Substituting a bamboo pole for her own corpse in an elaborate ritual, she managed to erase her name and allotted lifespan from the ministries of heaven, allowing her to take a new name and move far from the province, to where no-one knew her. Since then she has been studying Chinese Alchemy, diligently researching life-extension talismans, potions, and spells. By her estimation, she's added more than two hundred years to her lifespan so far, and given herself a more humanoid, curvaceous body to boot, as well as overcoming the traditional kappa weakness of spilling the water kept in a depression on their head.

Now having taken on the new name 'Dazai Yuka', she now continues her travels across japan and beyond, always chasing a rare herb or mystic item, an ancient scroll, or other lost knowledge. So far she has managed to defeat or elude agents of death sent after her, but who knows how much longer that will last? Until then, her adventures will continue.