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Ooh, I'll do this. Love Skullgirls. Although I'm horrible at the game. Anyways, wall of text incoming.
Name: Ishka
Age: 27
What you look like: Medium height (5'6-ish), athletic figure. Regular human female. She has dark purple hair, gray eyes and sharp features. Usually dresses in black, loose clothes, tightened by belts and such as not to impair her movement. Always wears a hood, sometimes a scarf to mask her face.
Personality: Ishka values knowledge and individuality above all. On her own is also where she is at her best, as she often has trouble communicating with people. It's not that she's shy; rather, she often appears distant and cold to others. She has trouble tending to others' feelings or giving someone the support they may need, in a friendship. She may be inclined to help people, but only if it somehow benefits her.
She is quite sure of herself; this self-confidence can sometimes turn to arrogance, however. As was said before, she believes knowledge is extremely important in every person's life. She tries to find logical patterns in just about everything around her. Since this is the case, she's fairly skilled at predicting what people will do; however, she rarely takes what they feel into account, so even she can be caught by surprise sometimes.
Ishka is not empathetic in the least and doesn't understand people who make decisions based on hunches or personal subjectivity. She likes when people express themselves clearly and correctly and is, in fact, quite attracted to intelligent people who can come up with new ideas and theories. Herself, she is surprisingly creative and loves to just sit down with a pipe and get lost in her own world whenever she doesn't need to concentrate on anything.
Characterization: Not exactly certain what this means..
Fighting Type: Ishka is extremely mobile, using illusions to distract her opponent while she deals devastating strikes to them from the shadows. In direct combat, she's better off at the defensive, parrying small weapons with ease and dodging anything else. She can also create illusory copies of her weapons; to trick her opponent, these can either be complete illusions, serving only as distractions or also be able to actually deal damage to them. She is able to dash from shadow to shadow and to an extent blend in with the environment.
City / Location: She rents a small house in Maplecrest, however she often goes all around the city to complete contracts.
Weapons: Sickle, chakram and an assortment of throwing knives.
Relations to Others: She was a classmate of (and crushed on) Valentine as a child. Since she's an assassin by profession, she had a bit of a rivalry going on with Big Band when he was human, which continues even now, after his 'rebirth'.
Back Story: Ishka had a regular, fairly happy childhood. Her parents, a conservative pair of farmers, wanted to raise her as a member of the Black Egrets, but she refused to serve as a soldier. She aspired to become a scientist, however her parents didn't let her study at the school she needed. In the end, she left home at age 17, heading to New Meridian, taking only some money and a sickle from the house.
The problem was, all the jobs she could find or had qualification for in the city were far below her standards - she didn't wish to end up as a waitress in some lowly bar. Ishka had always had a wild imagination, and wanted to put it to good use.
Once, an old woman caught Ishka practicing her illusions. She was a former leader of a thieves' guild that operated all around the Canopy Kingdom and, seeing her potential, agreed to teach Ishka the art of being unseen.
Eventually, Ishka mastered the skills of an assassin and, though the common folk can't afford to hire her services, she became almost infamous.
Excuse the slightly clichéd writing. Didn't want to take two years writing something as simple as this.