Foxfire

The Elysian Forest outside of Emerald City includes many unusual creatures, some alien or mutated by outside forces, others ancient remnants of human myths and legends, known as the Forsaken. One such is the entity called Foxfire, a kitsune-ninko, or possessing-fox-spirit. In her natural state, Foxfire is true to her namesake: a small fox, seemingly made up of glowing golden light. However, she can become invisible and virtually undetectable at will and further change or conceal her appearance with incredibly realistic illusions.
Many years ago, the mage Dragoneye mystically bound Foxfire, prohibiting the spirit from causing trouble in Emerald City or the Eastern District, and forcing her to perform one service for him each year of his life. The recent passing of Dragoneye freed Foxfire from her agreement, with many years of plotting trouble for Dragoneye and his people on her mind. Although the old mage was no more, his former allies—including The Golden Dragon Society and the alliance of criminals known as The Chamber—still exercised their influence in Emerald City.
So Foxfire possessed a human form and adopted an illusionary guise, allowing her to make mischief for the first time in many years. Several of the criminal elements of the Eastern District faced challenges from the mysterious woman called “Foxfire” and the city authorities sought to discover the identity and motives of the vigilante operating under their very noses.

Physical Description

Special abilities

In her natural state, Foxfire is an incorporeal inhabitant of the Spirit World, untouchable to all save magical powers. She can appear and disappear at will, pass harmlessly through all material objects, and move through the air, free of the effects of gravity. She is untroubled by most mortal concerns and able to perceive the Spirit World and its inhabitants (as they can also see and hear her).
Foxfire has a number of magical powers, not the least of which is the ability to possess living and intelligent creatures (mainly humans). Her spirit body enters the subject’s physical form, assuming control over their actions. The host is unconscious and does not recall anything from the time of Foxfire’s possession. She is also able to endow her host bodies with various powers, including the ability to fly as she does, and to hurl bolts of lightning, either as damaging blasts or blinding showers of sparks. Attacks affecting Foxfire’s host do not affect her, and she can abandon a possessed form at will to seek out another.
Perhaps Foxfire’s greatest power is the ability create detailed illusions, which seem real to all the senses. She uses this ability to change the appearance of host bodies to that of her “Foxfire” identity (even concealing race and gender) and to deceive her targets in a variety of ways. Where Foxfire is concerned, nothing is entirely as it seems. She often pretends to have a variety of other powers, including conjuring things from thin air, invisibility (concealing her host body behind an illusion), and so forth. She delights in using her power to make her foes look foolish.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Foxfire is a trickster by nature: delighting in deception and elaborate pranks designed to make fools of others, especially prideful and serious people. She can be rather cruel in ignoring others’ feelings, especially when she feels provoked into “teaching someone a lesson in humility” (or humiliation, it’s all much the same to her).
She tends to treat people as puppets and playthings, to be used and discarded at her whim. Years of service to the Ito family have given Foxfire some degree of empathy, but also considerable resentment towards humans and their petty problems. She does not kill casually, but also sees nothing wrong with “borrowing” human bodies to serve her own needs. Human suffering is endless, she at least brings some color and excitement into their otherwise meaningless lives.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Foxfire is a loner by nature; few people even know her true nature, much less work with her. She has been known to acquire unsuspecting “allies” using trickery, such as convincing heroes she is a helpless victim or bystander, or criminals that she is one of their own.
Foxfire is rapidly filling out her dance card with potential enemies: criminal syndicates like the Golden Dragon Society and The Takazumi-gumi, authorities like AEGIS and the Emerald City Police Dept., and virtually any heroes who happen to cross her path. She tends to assume that her powers and spirit nature make her largely immune to reprisals, but time may prove otherwise.