Name: Tanuki
Species: Meles anakuma (Badger)
Age: 6 years old
Birthplace: Kyoto, Japan
Length: 30 inches nose to tail
Weight: 17 lbs.
Unique abilities: shape-shifting, human speech (Japanese),
Curtain-crossing
Tanuki is a fun-loving, wise-cracking, cautiously optimistic
badger whose grandfather was a lightning god, Raiju (who favored the form of a
badger). Because of this special bloodline, Tanuki has some magical abilities
which include shape-shifting, from anything as large as a horse or bear to as
small as a bug, and can even change opacity (such as a small raincloud). He
loves playing tricks on unsuspecting people, but tends to play it safe and not
meddle in the affairs of dangerous types (unless it’s too much fun to resist!)
Tanuki serves his wise old master Yofune Nushi loyally, and
once he makes friend with David, he becomes a steadfast companion. Even though
he knows when it is better to flee than fight, he will stand by his friends’
side through the worst of situations, even putting up with the “smelly
red-haired human who is scary” [Gullin].
Alison...
ReplyDeleteIt seems you are the Imaginalchemist, n'est pas? I've been gone to long. Congratulations for finding a publisher. With your talent, it was only matter of time, much sooner than later.
Thank you, Joseph. Yes, I decided to throw off the Imaginalchemist guise for now and just be me. Too much going on in my life to be myself and a fictional persona...but I may still post short stories and poems every now and then.
ReplyDeleteHow is your writing coming along? I hope you're still typing away at it...I would like to read your book if there is a way to get a hold of it. (you're actually working on the second one too, right? I'm so out of the loop...)
Once again, glad to see you back!