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	.: Biyae :. Name: Biyae Pronounciation: "bee-yah-ay" ID: AM018F Gender: Female Sub-Species: Amuni Rank: Cardinal Breed: Feline Type: Promise Mutations: None Accessories: Red sash .: The Story Behind the Twins :. ~ Plot based on Fatal Frame, a survival/horror game by Haruji Sora ~ Long ago, a village buried deep in the forests of Japan gambled with their lives and opened the Hellish Abyss, a gateway into the fearsome bowels of the underworld. The Hellish Abyss has been the source of the village's power for as long as they can remember, giving them strength in exchange for gruesome sacrifices. When the Hellish Abyss began to rumble, the villagers sacrificed a foreigner using the Cutting Ceremony -- stretching his body with ropes and then cutting his flesh, causing as much physical and emotional pain as possible before casting him into the Hellish Abyss. The actual sacrifice was called the Hidden Ceremony, and took place deep underground. The unfortunate visitor who had been sacrificed was called the Kusabi. The Hellish Abyss would normally be appeased long enough for the villagers to prepare and perform the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual. At regular intervals in the village, twins would be born. The villagers believed that twins are really one person, separated at birth. The energy generated when the twins became one again was immense, and served to seal the Hellish Abyss when the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual was performed. Before the ritual, the twins would be confined to two houses, joined by the Earth Bridge (an underground cavern connecting the two houses) and the Heaven Bridge (a wooden covered walkway stretching between the second stories of each house). During this confinement, or "purification," the twins were allowed to pass freely between the two houses but not to leave and travel the village streets. Female twins were called the Twin Shrine Maidens, but occasionally male twins would be used, and were called the Alter Twins. During the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual, which took place deep underground, the older twin strangled the younger, then threw her body into the Hellish Abyss. The spirit of the younger twin took the shape of a crimson butterfly, and served to appease the rumbles of the Hellish Abyss. The older twin was called the Remaining, and stayed on Earth. The Remaining bore a mark resembling a crimson butterfly on her throat, and oftentimes their hair turned white. They were both respected and feared. Two Shrine Maidens, Yae and Sae, did not want to perform the Ritual. You see, in order for the Ritual to be a complete success, the older twin must want to kill the younger, and the younger twin must want to die. Yae loved Sae too much to kill her, so they tried to escape their fate. A Remaining from a prior ritual helped them leave the village, but their absence was discovered and the villagers took chase. Sae, always physically weaker (but more spiritually sensitive) than Yae, fell behind. In her hurry to catch up, she slipped down a steep mountain slope, breaking her leg. Yae searched for her, but became lost in the forest, Sae's last words ringing in her ears: "You promised...we would always be together..." Sae was recaptured and taken back to the village, where the priests decided to attempt the Ritual using her alone. They hung her, then cast her body into the Hellish Abyss -- but it was not enough. The seal on the Hellish Abyss broke, and the Repentance commenced -- the punishment that the Hellish Abyss sought on the village if it was not regularly appeased. Darkness, called the Malice, welled out of the Hellish Abyss, engulfing the entire village. Some of the villagers died in madness; others opted to commit suicide rather than face the Malice. Sae and the Kusabi emerged from the Hellish Abyss and slaughtered the villagers -- her maniacal laughter was said to be heard even outside of the village. The region is now frozen in time, repeating the night of the failed Ritual over and over again in perpetual darkness while Sae waits for her older sister to return. After the Repentance, Yae returned to find the village gone -- swallowed by the Repentance. Here memories were lost, and she remained at the site, crying, until she was found by a folklorist's assistant -- the same folklorist who had been sacrificed as Kusabi and emerged later on to help Sae slaughter the villagers. Yae eventually married the assistant, and they had a child together. Yae died when she hung herself from a Cherry Blossom Tree. .: You promised...we would always be together... :. Biyae is the reincarnation of Yae. Her twin sister, Bisae, is physically weaker than her, and counts on Biyae as a protector. Biyae loves Bisae more than anything in the world, and made a promise to her when they were younger: "I promise that we'll always be together." However, Bisae slipped and fell from a mountain path when the two were playing in their childhood home -- coincidentally the same forest that conceals the cursed village -- and broke her leg. Now Bisae counts on Biyae more than ever before, because she can seldom move faster than a walk. Bisae is extremely sensitive to the paranormal, and is constantly running off, getting possessed, and who knows what else. Biyae always tries to find her, but normally can't find the ghost-influenced Bisae until Bisae wants to be found. As soon as Bisae is released from her supernatural-possessed state, however, she loses all memory of her ghostly adventure except for hard facts (for example, memories of Sae's childhood and the Ritual). Because of this, she is even more vulnerable to being influenced by the dead. Biyae can share her visions by touching her. Biyae is a very brave individual, able to overcome most obstacles by using her courageous determination and her smarts. Out of the two sisters, she is the most apt to take action rather than sit back and take her medicine, although she would never dare be openly disrespectful to anyone, even behind their backs.