The One Eyed Bandit
rotworm
Age: 19
Personality: Amantera is uh, nice?
Yeah. Amantera is pretty nice. I guess.
I mean, personality wise, she's not a mean person. She's super-considerate, you know, like the kind of person who always makes sure that the person they're sharing a room is comfortable? The ones who like, adjust their habits and schedules so that they don't interfere with the lives of their room-mate? Those wonderful people? She's a lot like that. Not stopping there though, the young Mantis girl seems to have a fuse as long as her dresses are, never getting mad at someone unless the person at fault has like, killed someone or something. So, yeah, you can expect her to keep her cool at just about any given point in time. And, lastly, she's one of the most accepting people you'll meet. Not in the "Everyone is beautiful the way they are" sort of way, though, her thought process is more along the lines of "Oh, just make sure you fish out all the trout you put into the bathtub when you're done playing ocean, and there's no harm done, right?"
...Or something.
But ah, despite that, the girl isn't without her issues.
Culture shock is a big thing for a lot of Monster Girls coming into human society, they either bringing their own overwhelmingly different traditions and the like, or the vice versa. Either which way, someone winds up with the short end of the stick. The Mantis, are of the prior category. See, among their many cultures, a lot of things are regarded A LOT differently. Like, for example, where it's consider a god damn sin to leave your child alone for any longer than like two minutes in our society, the Mantis have a lot more of a... Devil may care approach to parenting. Like, they have a pretty large number of kids, being a bug type of race and all, so, it's not really their concern if one or two of them wanders off before they reach like, say... Seven? You know, stuff like that.
There's a whole lot more to talk about than just that, though. Like the difference in tolerance levels for... A good deal of things, but, hey, that's the sort of thing you can find about yourself in the RP, right?
Race: Mantis - So, the Mantis people are basically bigger, deadlier, and cuter versions of the normal kind that you find in your garden at home. Their scythes are basically just bigger versions of the ones that the insect keeps in stock. You know the kind? The ones that can 'Strike at speeds equaling 1/20 of a second'? Yeah, those. They carry just as much monstrous precision as they do in their smaller form, the average mantis being able to make movements so precise that they'd put a master artist to shame. Or, they would, if they actually had fingers. Their speed isn't quite as insane as that, their larger, heavier forms weighing them down significantly, pulling the quickness of one's strike down to around one-fifth of a second. Additionally, on a less insanely terrifying note, their eyesight is fairly terrible. Despite theoretically being able to pick out the tiniest of details and movements, their depth perception is among the worst of any species of Monster Girl, period. Traditionally, they had to make up for this by moving their head in an odd swaying motion, but with the Treaty between mankind and Monster Girl, a wonderful advent has taken place for their species. That of glasses.
Oh, and one last thing. Being an Insect type of Monster Girl, the Mantis aren't the most durable of species.
So please...
Please be gentle.
Job: Idol
Specialty:
-Not Instruments
-Singing
-NOT Instruments
Likes:
-Keyboards
-Stuff that doesn't require hands
-Computers
-ahahahahahaha
Dislikes:
-Pens
-Pencils
-Knives, Forks and Spoons
-Chopsticks
-Circular Door Knobs
-Everything else that requires fingers
Background: You may be thinking right now, "Why would a girl from a race of humanized Mantis, the most hardcore of bugs want to be an Idol?". Well, you see, the answer to that is a lot simple than you'd think. With the peaceful times going on right now and all, there's a lot more cross-cultural exchange going on. Say, for example, you know how you get all those books translated from foreign languages in your library nowadays, and how you get to see ALL those Japanese cartoons every season, translated all nice and fast? Well, the same thing has been going on with the Monster Girl and Human populations. A whole lot of brand new stuff has been getting introduced to isolated cultures like that of the Mantis lately, and it's been having more of an effect than one would think? Like what? Well, imagine you're just some nice, reserved Mantis girl living out your life somewhere in Asia. You're a Mantis, so, you don't get a whole lot of individual attention from your folks, or, anyone really, until you've survived you first like... Twenty years of life?
Well, yeah. You're living a life like that, and then, suddenly, all this brand new technologies get introduced into your tribe or village or whatever. Electricity! Toasters! Televisions! And, most importantly, Computers! Suddenly, you've been introduced to a whole new world of... Stuff. And, while you're browsing the internet on that laptop with the wonderful 'keyboard' invention it's got built into it, you come across a video of some musicians preforming. "Idols" they call them, and, as you watch you notice something. Everybody loves them. There are whole crowds of people giving you their undivided attention! Like, holy shit! Well, you can basically sum up Amantera's discovery of the whole idol business, and her motivation to become one.
Around when she was 17, the whole tech craze shindig went down in her tribe, and, it was only a few months before she stumbled across some promotional material for the Yukihime Agency, and, a few months later, she'd convinced herself that was what she wanted to do with her life. Getting things pressed through with her parents, well, being a Mantis, wasn't exactly an issue. In fact, it wasn't even a concern in the first place. What WAS an issue though, was the fact that she had next-to-no experience in any of the musical arts. Like, despite how deadly a Mantis can be, they aren't the most... Handy of races. As in, they have no hands. AS IN, playing instruments is pretty much out of the picture for them, and... Well, a nice singing voice on it's on isn't going to get you extremely far, is it? So, for two years she went about figuring out just how in the hell she'd get into the business. Watching karaoke videos, going to a singing lesson once and then never again because it hurt her throat, and following whatever tutorials she could find on the web, and then finally going back to singing lessons because the other two methods weren't working. For two years she pushed herself through all that and, eventually, she met that fabled status of being a decent singer, and sent in her application to the Yukihime Agency right away.
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