Velvet Kindreas

Name: Velvet Kindreas a.k.a. Mintaka, Celestia Tsukia
Age: 21
Weapon: Uses swords and daggers of all types. Also proficient with guns. (Has a preference for her Kyiki sword (smaller ver. of Masamune to fit her smaller size) and her guns Mishra (her rifle/shotgun) and Shiki (her pistol).
Job: Treasure hunter, spy, sometimes assassin, entertainer and professional singer under the name Celestia Tsukia. Whatever it takes to support herself.
Eye Color: Frosty green-blue, normally hidden by shades or contacts.
Hair: Blue
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 117
Birthdate: April 8
Birthplace: Ghost Inn (Gold Saucer)
Blood-type: AB-

Appearance: Well-toned, slim with pale skin. She wears many types of clothes to fit her parts but she has her normal outfit too for when she's just lounging or doing personal work. She likes to wear a blue skin tight top, blue jeans and leather boots during her off-time. Often wears some kind of glove, particularly her black leather ones.  Other accessories include her pendant and a set of armlets for parrying and defending.

Background:

Velvet was born in the Ghost Inn of the Gold Saucer. Her parents were travelers, never staying in one place, but she knew their true origins lied in the North, it was possible that they hailed from Icicle Village. While she wasn't entirely sure about where her parents originally lived, Velvet did know that she wasn't like everyone else. She returned to the Saucer often with her parents but when she was 9, as they traveled through the Nibel Mountains, something happened that changed her life forever.  Her family was passing through the mountains on their way from Rocket Town to Nibelheim when they were attacked, Velvet was enslaved and both of her parents were slain.  A man known only as Joseph was personally responsible for this, and their paths would cross several times before she would be rid of him.

She spent seven years enslaved, although the first year was spent at Hojo's lab when she was sold.  Thereafter, she spent time between her captor and the lab, and finally never went back.  Her first encounter with Mintaka Avengeline was here, although she would not truly come to know him until much later.  Her memories were recessed of the time in the lab, and this is where the hematite mark came from.  She learned most of her skills she has in that time of seven years and, given her background in entertainment from her traveling parents, was forced to entertain by singing and dancing. Velvet learned to gather information, steal, and to do many things for her captor but every time she tried running away, she was hunted down and recaptured. 

Finally, at the age of 15, she murdered her captor and fled, finally gaining her freedom but unfortunately, she couldn't return to a normal life sine she had no marketable abilities beyond her performance skills. Like her parents, she traveled the world and during her seventeenth year, she ended up in the Bone Village. There, in an archeological dig, Velvet discovered a harp, and used it to continue on through a strange forest, eventually finding finding her way into the City of the Ancients. She sought shelter there, waiting out an usual storm and eventually fell asleep within one of the buildings. That night she had many dreams...and heard many things...

When she awoke the next morning, the day of her 18th birthday, she discovered a little hematite bump on her forehead. Confused, bewildered, yet found herself unable and unwilling to leave the city, Velvet was drawn to the underground where she stayed for a few days, just listening to the voices. After leaving, she knew her way in life was to let her self be hired as a mercenary, going by the name Mintaka, and to sing on the side as well, just living day to day. Ever since the day she found the Ancient's City, she has found herself drawn to discover the small void in her life.  There is a point where things seem to fade shortly after her enslavement, and one day she would discover the truth.  The spirits would lead her to the truth whether she was ready or not for it.

A true nomad on a quest for herself and her identity, Velvet is alone in the world, craving friends and a life of no worry. Each day is a trial as she struggles to survive alone, yet she finds herself unable to open up for fear of being hurt again. Even as the singer, Celestia Tsukia, she shies from contact because she is afraid of the pain of losing another friend.

Her only other "friend" had suffered Mako poisoning... his name had been Mintaka Avemgeline and she had met him shortly after she had escaped her captors. So that is why her Merc name and "nickname" is Mintaka, in honor of the person who saved her. Velvet doesn't know if he survived, as he left before something worse could happen to either of them, and she is touchy on the subject of Mako poisoning, hating the thought of anyone else suffering that fate. She also hates to see unjust unreasonable torture which is why she always kills quickly and painlessly....except when she finds the one who killed Kimi...she has a very dark fate for this person, whoever he was. The note had been signed 'Tri' Velvet knows that she will find him some day...that day will come...

She was 19 and performing in Kalm as Celestia Tsukia when she befriended Kimi Aerani. They chatted and discovered how much they were alike, becoming friends and partners but around 6 months later, Velvet awoke to find her friend missing. After a wide search of the area she found her friend hung...murdered... with a note her only clue as to why. The note read "Dear 'Mintaka,' here's a gift for the death of our leader..."  Velvet was severely hurt by this move as Kimi was the only person (other than her parents) with whom she had been close with. After that incident, where she cried for three days straight, she never got close with anyone else for fear of the grief and every day she lives with the memory of her friend, keeping the bracelet Kimi had given her.

Overall Velvet seems very confident and cool, but when someone tries to enter her life she gets very uncomfortable, wanting the company but not the pain and she is determined to discover her origins...to understand her place in this world.  She is currently trapped into a contract with Mintaka, though this is quickly crumbling into a struggle over something much different.  Since the day she ran into the group that day, her life has changed.  She witnessed things which went straight to her soul, and changed her way of thinking.  Unconsciously, she chose to go with Ferris and help him stop the fire, and this would lead to more changes.  She found herself drawn in to help as she understood what was happening, and on impulse, and a need to prove herself, went to go with Ferris to hunt down Silvara's kidnapper.  She has opened to Ferris, surprising even herself, as she tries to escape Mintaka, and yet knew he had answers.  Upon the arrival at Nibelheim, everything changed it seemed, as things came rushing to overcome the situation.  She discovered while possessed by Kakyu her origins of being in the lab, and understood enough of herself now.  She is in the midst of change and revolution within, and does not want to lose Ferris now.  His friendship is what has kept her from going over the edge completely, though she denies still anything deeper.   

Limit Breaks

I. Divine Crystal Rain- Heals a member of your group OR poison element attack on enemy.
I. (II) Flood of Tears- A wave of water from the heavens. Water based attack.

II. Flames of Purity- Raging fire burns the enemies or heals the party.
II. (II) Terra Nova- Earth attack cause by boulders.

III. Shocking Heaven Light- Lighting rips from the sky and blasts the enemy.
III. (II) Wind of Hope- Either wind damage to the enemy or heals all members to full.

IV. Holy Cry of the Unicorn- Does two things; raises dead and heals, it also blasts the enemy for massive Holy-based damage. The Drawback is that it takes a little of her spirit to do, which leaves her weakened. The spirit does regenerate, but it takes time.

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