About Doji Himeko
NAME: Doji Himeko
CLAN: Crane
SCHOOL: Doji Courtier
RANK: 1
Age: 18 Sex: Female Height: 5'2"
Description: Simple, wholesome but not stunning features, self-confident pose and voice but not of attention-getting stature; think of Jodie Foster in Contact.
FIRE 2 (Agility 2; Intelligence 2)
AIR 3 (Reflexes 3; Awareness 4)
EARTH 2 (Willpower 2; Stamina 2)
WATER 2 (Perception 3; Strength 2)
VOID 2
GLORY 1
HONOR 6.7
STATUS 1
INSIGHT 130
INITIATIVE 4k3
TN TO BE HIT: 20
Health/Wounds x2
Healthy (+0) 10
Nicked (+3) 14
Grazed (+5) 18
Hurt (+10) 22
Injured (+15) 26
Crippled (+20) 30
Down (+40) 34
Out 38
TECHNIQUES
The Soul of Honor: So long as you maintain your Honor Rank at 6.0 or better, you gain a Free Raise on all Courtier, Sincerity, and Etiquette rolls. Also, by conversing with another person for a few minutes, you can make a Contested Roll of Courtier (Manipulation) / Awareness against the target’s Etiquette / Awareness to learn whether they are in need of favors or assistance.
ADVANTAGES
Ancestor: Doji, Servant (Artisan)
DISADVANTAGES
Sworn Enemy (Tobezu), Sworn Enemy (Soshi Yasamari), Unlucky (Rank 2)
SKILLS
Calligraphy 1
Commerce 1
Courtier (Manipulation) 3 (+1k0)
Etiquette 2 (+1k0)
Investigation 1
Jiujutsu 1
Lore: Heraldry 1
Lore: History 1
Lore: Law 1
Lore: Scorpion 1
Lore: Unicorn 1
Perform: Oratory 1 (+1k0)
Perform: Storytelling 1 (+1k0)
Sincerity 2 (+1k0)
Tea Ceremony 1
EQUIPMENT
One life can make the difference.
-- Kakita
HISTORY
Himeko’s Family
Himeko’s father Giichin had her late in life, and that is perhaps the saving grace of her dealings with him. He was a courtier who specialized in inheritance law, and was understandably acid-tongued. Not that he was unkind to Himeko, but he was not easily impressed. And when she turned out to be his only child, and a daughter at that, it made for some rough nights.
To top it off, you Himeko was not a stunning beauty, and the Crane practically have a cult around pretty faces, which disgusted her. All the boys were training to be bushi like the world depended on them. And the girls? Giggling fools. It seemed crazy. But Himeko’s ninth and thirteenth winters at the Bayushi court brought it all together. The world did depend on her; it was her peers who did not realize the responsibility of privilege.
Just before Himeko’s gempukku, her father retired, leaving her mother to arrange her acceptance to the Doji Courtier school, something that would give Himeko a chance for a life that is not dependent on the man she might marry. When put against that alternative, she was happy to go. The school was almost nauseatingly polite; Himeko soon realized it was a test to see how much dross she could move aside and manipulate to get to the real political action underneath. Through mizu-do, she trained herself not to panic under stress and learned that the competition and give-and-take exhilarated her in a way nothing ever had. The martial training also taught Himeko to maintain her authority in the face of death, and she soon found out how important that would be.
Becoming a Magistrate
At the School, yoriki positions were given according to who your father was, or by establishing and maintaining a reputation even through the constant turn-around and fresh faces of the week. Getting an appointment was not as difficult as Himeko imagined, but that was only because of the location of her first job: Ryoko Owari. The "City of Lies" didn't bother her...it was that the place should have been called "City of Cheap, Available Assassins." Every smuggler she busted had a boss, every Scorpion she manipulated came back in the form of a dozen stalkers. Himeko made heaps of enemies in the process. In her first months on the job, she unearthed an opium smuggling ring with ties to the Soshi family. Soshi Yasamari, a hulking brute of a courtier, covered the whole thing up, including the indirect involvement of Soshi Bantaro, the daimyo of the family, and he despises Himeko for it. She can’t prove it, but Yasamari is also responsible for the death of one of Himeko’s associates: Ide Meiko.
