Miriya Namikawa

Name: Miriya Namikawa (南川 美梨椰) Type of creature: Bakeneko Preferred food: Fish oh yes please FISH. Other habits/traits: Tends to rub her ear with the palm of her hand even when human, goes crazy for fish and red laser pointers.

Hobbies: Dancing, exchanging stocks, sewing, playing computer games. Personality: Moody, energetic, vengeful, untrusting, aggressive. Likes: Fish, art, elegant clothing, children. Dislikes: HUMANS, dirt.

History: There are a lot of legends about how the shape-shifting cats came to be. Rather similar to nekomata - the split-tailed cats - some believe that bakeneko are cats that have been kept for an exceptionally long time. Others, though.... Well, let's just say Miriya thinks that superstition should be left to the nekomata. Her history was born in far less generous circumstances. Miriya was born a very regular house cat during World War II, which meant peace was not a terribly familiar concept to her. To her luck, however, a pair of children found her and took her home to where they were staying. The family they were staying with - a distant relative - scolded the children when they brought home another mouth to feed, and insisted they throw her out. However, the children kept her in secret, and raised Miriya for about 7 months, loving her. By then, however, the family they were with discovered her and, in a rage, kicked both the children and Miriya herself out. From then on, it all went downhill. The children tried their best to keep feeding her and taking care of her, but as time went on, all three of them started starving. The children had started stealing food, begging, but no one had time for a pair of stupid kids and their cat. Gradually, Miriya became more loyal to her masters, and more hateful of everyone else.

All of this came to a head when she was just a year old. The kids had caught a break, a kind stranger gifting them a whole bag of rice and a couple of small sardines just for her. It seemed, however, that their good fortune did not go unnoticed, and another starving person off the streets followed them to their makeshift shelter. The kids fought for the rice fiercely, and in the process the thief pushed the younger one hard, causing her to hit her head on a wayward protrusion and killing her instantly. The grieving elder child and Miriya were left with no food, and both died of starvation a few weeks later. Her deep grudge against the man who had stolen their last shred of hope had sunk in so deep that she held onto it even as she breathed her last cat breath. She woke up moments later, and without any prompting, transformed into a human, determined to take her revenge.

The bakeneko took her revenge against the desperate thief and then began to hunt the family that had kicked her and her owners out of their house. During the day, she stayed as a cat and hid in the shelter with the bodies of her masters, and during the night, she went out as a human with flaxen hair. When she finally found the kids' distant relatives, she tormented them every day until their family was torn apart both by her and the war. Her revenge complete, she returned home and prepared to die along with her humans. Day after day passed, and she realized she was not about to die, so she explored until she discovered a gate to the Spirit Inn. It was there that she waited out the rest of the war. She returned to the human world after peace appeared to return to her homeland and made a life for herself pretending to be a human.

Human occupation (if they have one): Waitress at a hamburger restaurant (part-time), stock trader (lucratively), test-gamer.

Brief bio on human disguise: Miriya claims that she was raised in an unknown orphanage whose location she keeps to herself, and has simply decided to make her own way by taking jobs in the restaurant industry.