Nezuma

While not one of the more popular fixtures in the Yuriba hot spring, Nezuma is perhaps best known for being one of Coral's clingier compatriots and one of the island's goofier and more eccentric demonic residents. Her laid back personality about most things makes her easy to deal with and easy to get along with so long as you don't press any of her buttons- buttons that set her off rather quickly if pressed.

Biography

Nezuma Velhart, youngest daughter of Rhen and Lilith and baby sister to brother Draden and sister Carina, is a half demon who, according to her, was born in a province on the outskirts of Hell where she was raised by her mother and father while constantly avoiding her homicidal sister who was dead set on killing her for reasons that not even she fully understands. Nezuma has also never learned exactly what kind of demonic blood runs through her, having said that not even her father knows, though she has joked once or twice about having the appetite of a dragon which some take as a hint.

While admitting that she is very old, Nezuma has never said exactly how old and has even said that she stopped caring about her age when she stopped aging between the ages of twenty-nine and thirty. Her seemingly intimate knowledge of events in ancient human history, including the claim that she was once close friends with Christ, hints at just how old she is and has even given rise to a rumor that Nezuma's mother Lilith is the first wife of Adam who Samael seduced out of Eden. Nezuma has never confirmed this rumor, and seems sensitive about the accusation.

With the exception of a few people who have particularly touched Nezuma's heart in the many places she has visited in her travels, Nezuma lived the life of a nomad and never stayed in just one place any longer than a year or two. With the aid of her wings and utilizing the high-force winds of the jetstreams flowing through the stratosphere, Nezuma has never been confined to any one place by vast expanses of ocean.

However, this changed when Nezuma's trusting nature landed her tied up in a barn where a group of fanatical humans beat and tortured her for being a relation of her brother Draden. Like her sister's extreme hate for her, Nezuma was never able to understand what her brother had done to anger those people so much. After the torture had grown too great for her to bear, Nezuma's demonic power was released by the triggering of an internal survival mechanism and the barn was blown apart from the inside, leaving a battered and bleeding Nezuma as the only survivor. Nezuma never flew again after that day, as the membranous flesh of her wings had been all but stripped from their bony frame.

After that day Nezuma continued wandering, but chose to keep to herself after the maiming of her wings left her distrusting of humans and hesitant to make contact with them. She spent a lot of time submerged in the beauty of nature where she met and made friends with a wood pixie and a the female dragon Raziel (who she claims is now hibernating in a cave somewhere under Yuriba, though this too has never been confirmed).

She came to the island shortly after her dragon friend, claiming the desire to follow the creature as her reason for coming to the place. Nezuma had somewhat regained her trust in humanity by this point, so she had little trouble getting used to the ones around the island and even came to like a few of the mortal inhabitants. After settling in, Nezuma was pulled into an abusive four-way romance where she was used as leverage by each woman against the other. This put a huge strain on the woman's emotions and, after wise words from her most trusted friend, has given up relationships altogether. She has been living on the island ever since, having only left one other time when a family emergency called her back to her birthplace.

Powers

Being half demon, Nezuma has a number of powers accorded her simply by birthright that most humans have to train decades for; her inhuman strength being the least of these. Never being the type to flaunt these abilities, the majority of Nezuma's powers remain hidden. Though it is a wide known fact that she has the ability to shift between demonic and human forms at will, saying that bother and neither are her 'true' shapes.

Friends

Nezuma has a number of acquaintances she gets along well with on the island, but due to her experiences with people she is hesitant to call any of them friends.

The one person she does count as a true friend is, ironically, the human Coral who showed Nezuma kindness after she managed to fight her way out of that abusive relationship. Nezuma considers Coral the most genuine human being she's ever met and is quick to defend her friend's honor even if Coral doesn't feel she really needs it. She's loyal to Coral and even says that she's sold her soul to the mortal, though this also has never been confirmed and is thought by some to just be a humorous metaphor for Nezuma's loyalty and devotion to the person she calls her best friend.