Hikaru Vulapin, God of Foxes
God of Foxes, Divine Mother of Tricksters, God of Transformation
Divine Domains
Trickery, cunning, pranks, survival, transformation, autumn
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Foxes, teeth, maple leaves, the sun, oak bark, round stones, smoke, incense, rubies, maple trees.
Holidays
Hikaru is not directly associated with any holidays, but associated with the season of fall over all, and often her cult will hold festivals at the beginning and end of the season throughout Tokyo and the Red Maple District.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Hikaru often appears as a dark skinned Japanese woman with wide hips and long legs, long red hair that is blond at the tips, and extremely sharp long nails. She has tattoos on her arms, chest, legs, and down her back. She will often wear a simple, handmade looking skirt, deep cut sleeveless top, and a fur mantle long with her most prominent symbol, maple leaf earrings made of gold and rubies. Often, she accents her outfits with fox tails.
It is well known that Hikaru does not truly look like how she appears to mortals and those who can see magic can easily tell she is using a form of illusion or transformation magic on her own body. What the god of foxes does truly look like is unknown, however there have been many speculations based on the appearances of her children, such as Aurora Vulapin, Amos Vulapin, and Raina Vulapin, who all have naturally dark hair, freckles and birthmarks, green eyes, or other traits not seen in their father Ferventi or his other children.
One of Hikaru's favored forms is of a slender young man, a form often only used during festivals, on first meeting other members of the pantheon, or for displaying her prowess with transformation magic. Many have speculated that this form, as per many old myths and tales of her shifting appearance, may be more in line with her first initial visage and mortal form. Another common form for her is that of an elderly woman, though as it is generally only used for in tricks and trials of mortals, it is generally considered to not be one of her 'true' faces.
Body Features
Her tattoos are divine symbols, and deeply tied to transformation magic, a stylized symbol of the Fox Nova.
Facial Features
Hikaru is often known for wearing makeup, in simple and subdued styles, but in bright colors around her eyes.
Special abilities
Hikaru is skilled with transformation and illusion magic, often using it to play pranks and tricks on god and mortal alike. Her transformations, particularly if given as a boon or a curse, are noted to be permanent, and only able to be removed by her. As such, many transgender individuals are known to go to her, seeking to change their bodies to be more fitting as a way of combating dysphoria. Sometimes, this is done under the guise as a 'punishment' for some sort of imagined transgression for those who do not want the true nature of their transformation to be made public, such as extremely minor offenses to Hikaru herself.
In regards to her transforming herself, most often she will undergo them with her body seeming to turn to clay or silt as her features change, thought by many to be a display of her favor to Lapi, The God of Earth, and Mora, The God of Life.
Apparel & Accessories
Hikaru always wears earrings in the shape of maple leaves made out of gold and rubies, even in her divine form. Contrary to her divine form, she appears rather humble in mortal form, with handmade clothing in simple styles. She doesn't often wear shoes, claiming they separate her from the earth.
In divine form, Hikaru retains her earrings and fur mantle, but also a cloak of billowing maple leaves. Her legs are shrouded in magic, appearing to lose detail and form as if made of smoke.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Hikaru is among the older minor gods, and well known for a strong personality. She forges strong allegiances with other gods, but also keeps her enemies close, making it hard to pin down exactly where her trust lies. Hikaru's bloodline came to power within the pantheon after many decades of turmoil within the The War of Black Ash era, in which multiple fox gods were killed in rapid succession due to conflicts with other gods, mortals, and dragons. during which time the species representing all foxes was changed repeatedly. Although there is little historical evidence, many older gods have supported claims and theories that Hikaru's bloodline came into the pantheon due to her maternal grandmother inheriting the position from her mate, passing down through Hikaru's mother, and then finally to her.
Sexuality
Bisexual
Personality Characteristics
Likes & Dislikes
Hikaru loves tricks, puzzles, and pranks and is known to pull them on others frequently. She also loves maple trees, using their leaves as one of her divine symbols. Despite her love of trickery and pranks she does have a strong dislike to those that are needlessly cruel, claiming those who use mischief to cause misfortune to those already in bad straights give tricksters a bad name.
Virtues & Personality perks
Often times, Hikaru likes to appear to mortals as an ordinary person but not always in her known form, often first appearing in the form of an old woman or an acquaintance to judge their reaction to her. She will often give boons and curses out depending on the mortal's reception. Sometimes she will appear as a young man as well, one who looks as though he could be her brother.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Hikaru is close with many other gods, keeping allies close and enemies even closer. Yung Pagoni, God of Peacocks, Ferventi, God of Wolves, Soliairs Taeyang, and the god of coyotes are known to be close to her.
Family Ties
Other than her daughters, Aurora and Raina, Hikaru does not keep her family very close. Aurora is the exception as her heir, and Raina being too young to live on her own. She is fond of her son Amos, but as he lives with his father, Ferventi, does not see him very often.
Relationships
History
The wolf and the fox have long histories that extend beyond that of their current ruling divines- Long have the wolf gods served as protectors to the foxes, and the foxes in turn messengers, secret keepers, and eyes in the shadows for the wolves. The connection between Hikaru and Ferventi goes far beyond this long allyship, with a direct debt and code of duty from Ferventi to repay the foxes for the acts of one of their fallen gods- now known to be Kizu, an adoptive mother of sorts to him. Although a relationship started out of shared respect and at least on Ferventi's part, a sense of honor, it is known that the pair escalated things quite early on into knowing one another, long after the fall of Ferventi's mate, Cryce. The pair are often in a 'on again, off again' relationship of sorts, where they will spend decades as one another's primary lovers before going back to other mates, mortal flings, and temporary affairs easily. Despite this and whatever their current status, both Hikaru and Ferventi have never been known to speak ill of one another or their time apart: "Even if the winter does come, it only means spring shall bloom again in good enough time."
Shared Secrets
Ferventi is the father of Hikaru's heir, Aurora Vulapin.
History
Aurora is Hikaru's eldest child, sired by Ferventi. As the eldest, it falls to Aurora to be prepared to take on her mother's mantle if she dies, and guide her kind. For this task, Hikaru has trained her since she was quite young with a kind yet firm hand, ensuring her daughter fully understands what is expected of her.
Wealth & Financial state
Although a rather wealthy god, Hikaru does not display it outwardly. She lives in a cottage deep in the land of gods with a small yet productive garden to lure in rabbits and mice as prey, her home similarly doing so to lost mortals with its warm, inviting appearance. She has a vast collection of precious gems, mostly rubies, that she will transform into figurines of foxes, rabbits, and maple trees or leaves. These are often given to her followers and priests.
Divine Classification
Minor God
Religions
Current Location
Species
Realm
Birthplace
Japan
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Gender
unknown
Presentation
feminine
Eyes
Gold
Hair
Red and blonde
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
darker olive
Height
6'
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