Zen'oumitsuji no Kiyoe (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
counterbalances) wrote2026-05-08 11:24 pm
counterbalances) wrote2026-05-08 11:24 pm
OVERVIEW
Appearance:
An adult woman, though her precise age is difficult to pin down. Petite in height. Her long, black hair is typically kept in a tidy updo with minimal decoration. Has vibrant red eyes with an unplaceable unnerving quality to them—the longer you look into them, the more those pupils begin to feel like a bottomless void.
Background:
The tiny, remote village to which Kiyoe was born had suffered a curse for generations. A lovers' suicide had cursed the souls of its inhabitants, trapping them within the borders of the village where they lived and died; rather than enter the true cycle of reincarnation upon their deaths, these souls would instead be endlessly reborn in that same place, endlessly repeating the same fates suffered by their original incarnations. The souls of the doomed lovers themselves became conjoined—cursed to be reborn within the body of a single person, never apart and yet never able to consummate their love.
Kiyoe was born these lovers' most recent—and final—incarnation. Imbued with unique spiritual abilities inherent to housing two souls within one body, she broke through to an outside power: something she refers to as the World's Will, a semi-sapient force that upholds the metaphysical laws of reality. By becoming a conduit for its will, she was able to purge the curse that had bound the villagers' souls there—an aberration in the eyes of the World's Will, for it disrupted the natural cycle of life and death their lives should have been subject to.
Today, that little village has been eclipsed by the temple built at its edge. Though most who might stumble upon it by chance would assume it to be a remote bastion of Buddhism, those who seek it with purpose know that the doctrine followed within its walls is something else entirely. A secret cult of the World's Will, its practitioners spend their lives learning to interpret and execute its commands—no matter what acts are necessary to enforce its metaphysical order. Kiyoe—now immortal by means of spiritual ascendance—leads them as the temple's abbess.
(Given her ageless nature, Kiyoe can be played in various historical time periods, fantasy settings, or modern day. A futuristic setting with fantasy elements may also be doable. By default, her world is set in the historical early modern period, with underpinnings of the supernatural—think something like the SoulCalibur series.)
Personality:
✦ On the surface, Kiyoe is bright, friendly, and carefree. Her ventures beyond the monastery rarely keep her in once place for long, so she makes a point to enjoy what is there while she is there. She indulges in food, drink, entertainments, and even people freely.
✦ She does so, however, knowing that any such experiences are transient. For her, wealth, material possessions, and even people are fleeting things; she doesn't form attachments more than rarely, moving through the world with an "easy come; easy go" attitude toward her connections within it.
✦ The only thing permanent in Kiyoe's life is her bond with—and service to—the World's Will. It is an object of religious devotion to her, and she follows its principles with an appropriate fervor. The result is a morality broadly unconcerned with compassion—only with a "justice" defined by order and adherence to otherworldly rules.
✦ Given this connection to an entity of cosmic authority, Kiyoe possesses complete certainty in her convictions. She fundamentally doesn't believe herself capable of making false judgments or rendering faulty verdicts—and there is an extent to which that is true, but only in so far as what concerns the World's Will. She will always be correct about what is metaphysically permissible or disallowed; this won't always correspond to any other ethical standard.
✦ This does, at times, cause her standards to seem nakedly hypocritical or self-serving. Any attempt by a mortal to achieve immortality is, by her standards, an attempt to violate the order of the universe—yet she herself is a mortal-turned-immortal.
✦ She is someone who believes strongly in the virtuousness of submission to hierarchy, and sees herself as a faithful servant to authorities cosmic, divine, and earthly alike. The World's Will does seem to favor systems of governance and organizing society that concentrate power in few hands—perhaps because of the relative ease with which dictates can be imposed on the greatest number of people.
✦ Kiyoe compartmentalizes the various roles she plays extremely starkly. When she travels among civilians, she is a person like anyone else; when the World's Will requires her to end a life to impose order, she is a tool—not an executioner, but the executioner's blade. This makes it extremely easy for her to perform any act she deems necessary, guilt-free.
✦ As the monastery's abbess, she works to reforge her initiates into similarly unfaltering implements of order. Those who fail to meet the standards she has set for her order aren't punished or disposed of; they are merely... corrected. She deems mental discipline to be the most important element of the foundation, and while she behaves indulgently outside of the monastery, life within it is accordingly kept ascetic.
Abilities:
✦ Kiyoe was born with the ability to see what she refers to as "threads of fate": metaphysical strings she is able to cut, untangle, and mend. "Pure" threads are bright and glimmering in appearance; "corrupted" threads are mottled and rotted. What plucking an impure string does depends on the nature of the contamination at play. For example, a human who has undergone a monstrous transformation, thereby perverting their "true" nature, might be reverted to their original form. Dead raised by a necromancer might simply drop back into inanimate repose. A couple involved in an incestuous relationship might find their hearts' desires changed.
✦ She is also capable of tying a thread of fate between herself and another person. This allows her to transmit thoughts, emotions, and even commands through the connection.
✦ After coming into contact with the World's Will, Kiyoe's ability to see threads of fate has expanded. Not only can she follow an individual thread linked to an aberration's source, but she is capable of visualizing the web of threads beyond her individual perception through a kind of out-of-body projection. This allows her to locate distortions within the world from her monastery headquarters.
✦ Her gaze has an unsettling, suppressive quality. Those held within it find their supernatural abilities severely dampened, if not outright disabled. It weakens both the body and the mind, as well, sapping strength and willpower. This gaze can also inflict gut-wrenching, hysterical feelings of guilt—inducing fits of uncontrollable weeping, supplication, or even catatonic stupor. An individual of extreme willpower can fight off at least some of the potency of these effects... But, of course, that is made more difficult by the weakening effect it has on the victim's will.
✦ Conversely, she can do the inverse to anyone within her field of vision—bolstering the strength of their powers, bodies, and minds, as well as removing their capacity for doubt and hesitation.
✦ As her supernatural abilities don't lend themselves to direct offense, Kiyoe is also a skilled melee combatant. She is a swift and agile warrior, with her weapons of choice being a matched pair of wakizashi.
✦ Also, she can disintegrate into a cloud of dragonflies! She often does so as a means of traveling long distances or trailing a target for assassination. Should she be killed, her body activates this ability automatically, allowing her to flee and reassemble herself as a healthy whole elsewhere.
Background:
Kiyoe was born these lovers' most recent—and final—incarnation. Imbued with unique spiritual abilities inherent to housing two souls within one body, she broke through to an outside power: something she refers to as the World's Will, a semi-sapient force that upholds the metaphysical laws of reality. By becoming a conduit for its will, she was able to purge the curse that had bound the villagers' souls there—an aberration in the eyes of the World's Will, for it disrupted the natural cycle of life and death their lives should have been subject to.
Today, that little village has been eclipsed by the temple built at its edge. Though most who might stumble upon it by chance would assume it to be a remote bastion of Buddhism, those who seek it with purpose know that the doctrine followed within its walls is something else entirely. A secret cult of the World's Will, its practitioners spend their lives learning to interpret and execute its commands—no matter what acts are necessary to enforce its metaphysical order. Kiyoe—now immortal by means of spiritual ascendance—leads them as the temple's abbess.
(Given her ageless nature, Kiyoe can be played in various historical time periods, fantasy settings, or modern day. A futuristic setting with fantasy elements may also be doable. By default, her world is set in the historical early modern period, with underpinnings of the supernatural—think something like the SoulCalibur series.)
Personality:
✦ She does so, however, knowing that any such experiences are transient. For her, wealth, material possessions, and even people are fleeting things; she doesn't form attachments more than rarely, moving through the world with an "easy come; easy go" attitude toward her connections within it.
✦ The only thing permanent in Kiyoe's life is her bond with—and service to—the World's Will. It is an object of religious devotion to her, and she follows its principles with an appropriate fervor. The result is a morality broadly unconcerned with compassion—only with a "justice" defined by order and adherence to otherworldly rules.
✦ Given this connection to an entity of cosmic authority, Kiyoe possesses complete certainty in her convictions. She fundamentally doesn't believe herself capable of making false judgments or rendering faulty verdicts—and there is an extent to which that is true, but only in so far as what concerns the World's Will. She will always be correct about what is metaphysically permissible or disallowed; this won't always correspond to any other ethical standard.
✦ This does, at times, cause her standards to seem nakedly hypocritical or self-serving. Any attempt by a mortal to achieve immortality is, by her standards, an attempt to violate the order of the universe—yet she herself is a mortal-turned-immortal.
✦ She is someone who believes strongly in the virtuousness of submission to hierarchy, and sees herself as a faithful servant to authorities cosmic, divine, and earthly alike. The World's Will does seem to favor systems of governance and organizing society that concentrate power in few hands—perhaps because of the relative ease with which dictates can be imposed on the greatest number of people.
✦ Kiyoe compartmentalizes the various roles she plays extremely starkly. When she travels among civilians, she is a person like anyone else; when the World's Will requires her to end a life to impose order, she is a tool—not an executioner, but the executioner's blade. This makes it extremely easy for her to perform any act she deems necessary, guilt-free.
✦ As the monastery's abbess, she works to reforge her initiates into similarly unfaltering implements of order. Those who fail to meet the standards she has set for her order aren't punished or disposed of; they are merely... corrected. She deems mental discipline to be the most important element of the foundation, and while she behaves indulgently outside of the monastery, life within it is accordingly kept ascetic.
Abilities:
✦ She is also capable of tying a thread of fate between herself and another person. This allows her to transmit thoughts, emotions, and even commands through the connection.
✦ After coming into contact with the World's Will, Kiyoe's ability to see threads of fate has expanded. Not only can she follow an individual thread linked to an aberration's source, but she is capable of visualizing the web of threads beyond her individual perception through a kind of out-of-body projection. This allows her to locate distortions within the world from her monastery headquarters.
✦ Her gaze has an unsettling, suppressive quality. Those held within it find their supernatural abilities severely dampened, if not outright disabled. It weakens both the body and the mind, as well, sapping strength and willpower. This gaze can also inflict gut-wrenching, hysterical feelings of guilt—inducing fits of uncontrollable weeping, supplication, or even catatonic stupor. An individual of extreme willpower can fight off at least some of the potency of these effects... But, of course, that is made more difficult by the weakening effect it has on the victim's will.
✦ Conversely, she can do the inverse to anyone within her field of vision—bolstering the strength of their powers, bodies, and minds, as well as removing their capacity for doubt and hesitation.
✦ As her supernatural abilities don't lend themselves to direct offense, Kiyoe is also a skilled melee combatant. She is a swift and agile warrior, with her weapons of choice being a matched pair of wakizashi.
✦ Also, she can disintegrate into a cloud of dragonflies! She often does so as a means of traveling long distances or trailing a target for assassination. Should she be killed, her body activates this ability automatically, allowing her to flee and reassemble herself as a healthy whole elsewhere.
KINK LIST
favorites
- vaginal sex
- outercourse
- breast play
- rivals & enemies-to-lovers
- headpats ♥
yessmall dom/big sub
With her as the dominant party, naturally.kemonomimi
I don't feel like I can justify this as a "canonical" design element, but in my heart of hearts, I want Kiyoe to be fox girl... Basically, if you want to touch fluffy tail (or fluffy ears!), you can just say she has them and I will eagerly and self-indulgently play along.heat/rut
Tying into the above. My preferences is for this to be something unique to Kiyoe—or a class of kemonomimi people more broadly—so there is an element of cross-cultural or cross-species exploration between her and her partner.- bondage ✨
- impact play ✨
- discipline ✨
- edging & orgasm denial
- overstimulation
- body worship
- begging
- degredation
- collars & leashes
- biting & scratching
- toys
sometimes, with discussionexhibitionism
Includes things like (semi-)public sex, risk of discovery, making her partner wear something risqué under their clothes, and other forms of public play (stealthy or otherwise).free use
Mostly in the form of Kiyoe "loaning out" her partner.
not interestednoncon
Aggressor only.futanari
As distinct from realistic trans identities. To that end, I prefer fantastical "dual sex" biology, with a fully functional set of both genitalia. Can also be applied to male characters. Shapeshifting, transformation, etc, also works fine for these purposes.hypnotism
Some level of supernatural compulsion is fine; however, I'm not interested in a character's internal or external perception of the situation being altered.