Name: Xibtrae
Age: 26 (Appearance). Countless (Reality).
Date of birth: Pre-Utopia years, before time was counted.
Place of birth: A long lost and distant world, empty and devoid life. She was born on a town there called Sengurk.
Status: Alive
Race: Mortal; Xibtrae's race is lost to history, and not even she can recall its name.
Nationality: Undefinable. Her race possessed only a single "nationality," with only a single country on a single continent. In her society, genetics differed so much with so many different traits that there were no semblance of racial or glaring nationality differences amongst her people; each looked completely different in almost every way.
Marital status: Single.
Height: 5'7
Weight: 117 lbs.
Eye color: Cream. Although possible to see her iris, it's difficult to discern its color, and she can sometimes be confused with the blind. At times, however, the color of her irises change to a deeper yellow.
Skin color: Extremely light gray, almost powder white.
Hair color: Auburn.
Voice: She speaks in a very old English accent, and her original language is almost completely incomprehensible to Common speakers. Xibtrae's voice is soft, and she often sounds a few years (physically) younger than she really is. Her accent (as we'd call middle English when she speaks English!) is extremely notable, and creates difficulty for her when pronouncing particular words.
Notable marks: Tribal-esque tattoos line both sides of her stomach, and similar tattoos can be found on the middle of her chest. Other than her off skin color and strange eye color, she had fairly long horns upon her head, stemming from just above her ears, that progress back behind her skull, rather than to the front of it.
>> Image.
Image by Tirael
>> Persona.
Demeanor: Although quiet and often feeling a need to speak only on an as-needed basis, Xibtrae can be clearly defined as a bleeding heart. She can be melancholic at times (a good bit of the time, in fact), but will go out of her way to assist someone in need, regardless of the setback it may cause. Due to the customs she was raised with--customs from another world--she is often regarded by others as extremely outlandish, especially worsened by her appearance, which only a single being in the known world can claim to have any resemblance of.
History: Xibtrae was born in a small town called Sengurk, an isolated and otherwise normal town on a world whose name has been lost to time. She was raised by her grandfather and lived an exceptionally serene life. She was put through school and though she had a fairly active social life, reading took priority over most things.
The world itself was not much unlike Utopia, or the world Utopia became--the Dystopia. The colors of the ground and sea and sky all differed, but socially, it was different. Philosophers and studiers of myth even suggest that the quick development of the world was based upon the world Xibtrae inhabited, used as a basis for many social and technological (albeit dark age, as far as Dystopians are concerned!) developments of the known world.
It had a problem, though. Those that lived upon that world were descendants of gods, and while they were mortal, the gods--having gone unseen for hundreds of years before Xibtrae's time--were not, and without direction or purpose, became jealous of their descendants' mortality. They, referred to as the Seekers of the End--or Seekers for short--finally made their violent and vengeful reappearance upon their world when Xibtrae was sixteen, the first incident coming in the form of a meteor shaped god that plummeted into the earth and destroyed the young girl's village, during a routine walk into the distance, 'pon a hill overlooking the town, where she could not be bothered.
How she survived the aftermath was a constant source of mystery. It was later declared that she was far enough away from the initial blast that the shockwave had only a ninety five percent chance of killing her--and that she was lucky to be alive, regardless of how miraculous it was for anyone to survive from the village. No one did but her.
With the onset of the Seekers, the Kingdom had to defend itself, and rushed to train soldiers who could fair well against their forever living enemies. Following a long healing process, Xibtrae joined and trained as one of those soldiers without thought, seeking vengeance, but naively believing her desire to be for the good of the planet as a whole.
As a soldier, she was regarded with strong enough battle prowess to be called a Reaper on the field. The name stemmed from a farming term for harvesting wheat with a scythe (Xibtrae's preferred weapon), and she fought with the efficiency of a harvester, coming out of her first few fights completely untouched. Though her nickname was at first considered absurd, it later became a claim to infamy, a nickname that a man she met later in life adopted in her stead, and inevitably, (thousands of years later) after Utopia's creation, became the title of a full organization devoted to the harvesting of lost and wayward souls, and their ascent or descent to their respective afterlives.
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Years later, an ornate scythe was found upon a dying world by an otherworldly traveler--a god whose real name was tainted by so much bloodshed that he'd become known by his peers as Death . . .
Xibtrae was a trapped Gaiasoul, her mind and soul bound to the scythe--a method of "killing" immortal gods by binding their weakened souls to inanimate objects often used by those who hunted their fellows, effectively removing that god's ability to act or influence the universe in any way. Her relationship with Death--as her wielder--was awkward, crafted out of fear, respect, love, and lust, the latter of which was a strong feeling for Death, who inevitably became so emotionally attached to Xibtrae that he felt a monogamous affection for her. Because of the nature of her concealment, however, she could be nothing more than a pleasant voice for him--and he the same for her. They knew of each others appearance, but beyond this, they could not even be together in dreams.
It was a relationship that only added to the frustrations of Death, Saqin Rasche, and crafted him into the man that he is today. Likewise, it left a strong scar on Xibtrae--both the uncountable years that she was trapped and the emotional attachment for someone she was damned to never physically touch.
During one of Death's many battles 'pon the planet formed from the brainchild of Death and his "brother" Battle, the scythe was thrown from Death's hands, and at Xibtrae's instance for his safety, he had to abandon it in order to escape a foe that he--for once--could not defeat as he was. When he returned, the scythe was gone, and Xibtrae's location became a cosmic mystery left unsolved until the End of the World . . .
>> Powers and Abilities.
Special abilities: Beyond her fighting ability, Xibtrae has only one skill: spirit. Theologists studying the mythologies have referred to her as the Goddess of Spirit, for a lack of any reference to a godly quality of hers, though she was for all intents and purposes the descendant of gods. Xibtrae is naturally capable of absorbing spiritual energy--Qi--and using it as a means for attacks. This could entail that she absorbs Qi from another living body, the planet, or the air around her. The greater her access to Qi, the stronger her non-physical attacks can become.
Fighting style: Xibtrae prefers two types of fighting styles. Firstly, the use of a heavy farming scythe, with which she using flowing, intensely powerful attacks to cut down enemies, sometimes boasting higher degrees of damage than her physical stronger foes. Secondly, when unarmed, Xibtrae's style of combat mirrors Dystopian forms of martial arts--or, rather, vice versa. She makes use of throws, combination attacks, agile dodging, kicks with her shins, and swipes with her forearms. She is much more mobile when she is without a weapon than she is with a weapon.
