Character Base

• Character Name: Machi Komacine
• Age: 28
• Canon (Date/Year Released)/Canon Point: Hunter x Hunter Chapter 351 | March 2018
• Canon (Date/Year Released)/Canon Point: Flashbacks Chapters 395-397 | December 2022
• Items Coming Along: First aid bag/bag of her stuff with extra clothes, etc; full set of Phantom Troupe costumes; Phantom Troupe coin; dump truck of trash from Meteor City (Uvo's old domain); hodgepodge collection of ninja/samurai movies, tv series, etc; set of collectible program, ticket, etc to Chrollo and Hisoka's showdown at Heavens Arena.
• Content Warnings for Character: gory violence, torture, mutilation, torture/mutilation of children, child abduction, suicide, suicide bombers, mass murder, mass torture, harvesting of body parts for profit, mind control, violent loss of loved ones

Character Background

Spoiler Warnings for recent manga about Phantom Troupe background
• History: Wiki Background
• Core Relationships:

Sarasa
Machi wasn't close to Sarasa the way many of the others were, despite putting on the shows together. Sarasa was full of energy, into acting the pretty princess type, and being in the spotlight. Machi sewed costumes, but she respected Sarasa's personal way of handling others—handing Phinks a bowl of treats, "dubbing" Uvo.

When they found her body—parts in a bag—Machi carried her home because she was unwilling to leave her that way, to leave anyone that way. It wasn't her skills that gave Sarasa the funeral she deserved, but it brought that compassionate side of her forward. No matter how hard Machi is for the Spider, no matter what she does for it, that kindness remains. She regularly thinks of Sarasa when she helps prepare others for funerals.

Renko
A nen embalmer from Meteor City, they met at Sarasa's funeral, after Renko miraculously made her look like herself. Renko called it an ability, and Machi saw the aura around Renko's body. It was enough to get a card to see Renko later.

After Chrollo declared three years until they would go out into the world and get revenge, after he declared they would need the means to do so, Machi's choice was easy: she used the card. What better than a miraculous ability? Renko is Machi's nen master but not an easy master to please and often a disagreeable person. Renko is a compassionate at heart—caring endlessly for the multitudes of the dead in Meteor City, giving them all the funerals they deserve. Even in miraculous cases. Machi became a part of that, first in the mundane work, then with nen. Her nen stitches developed as a technique to sew the dead back together. She saw enough dead to inure her to to the worst gore, but Renko also taught her how to keep her heart. As important a lesson as nen. They disagree on the troupe's actions, a sore spot between teacher and pupil, but they're both from Meteor City and used to doing what they believe they must.

Renko's abilities impressed Machi from day one and continue to impress her to this day for what they can take of a corpse and restore.

Nobunaga
Before the troupe, they both were part of Uvo's gang. Nobunaga may have been there longer, but Machi made her presence felt, with violence if need be. She was the sharpest lookout with incredible aim. At the end of the day they were a team. More than that, Machi and Nobunaga scavenged their senses of style from the same samurai and ninja movies, comics, and tv shows—many of them partial or incomplete. When Chrollo was gone during the three year interlude, they'd argue how those story gaps should be filled (regular samurai vs. ninja discussions), while also looking for more or for the media to back them up.

In the troupe, when Nobunaga wasn't working with Uvogin, Machi and Nobunaga regularly work together as partners, and when they do, they inevitably argue. Nobunaga relies on logic, even when he must make suppositions, while Machi relies on her hunches. The two approaches are at odds without a means of resolving them (except when they gain answers). Despite the frequent reliable arguing, the two work well together. Nobunaga's effective at short range, while Machi's ability lets her be effective at longer range. They're both protective of other members of the troupe and side together when it comes to protecting Chrollo—to the point of potentially fighting other spiders to see it done.

His abilities don't particularly impress her because it's basically using a sword and most effective in one-on-one combat (highly limiting).

Uvogin
In Meteor City, Uvo took her in as one of his own. Sure, she had sharp eyes, an excellent accurate throwing arm, and stealth getting around his domain, but it wasn't all that. For all his bluster, he cared. Machi sensed that, and that meant a lot, though she still kicked him when he was being dumb. He could be a little thoughtless (such as suggesting all girls: read, Machi should be a princess). She corrected him, and Uvo always took it well, accepting Machi as Machi. He always wanted to play the villain, and if Machi had to play a role at all, that's the one she wanted too. Much as she loved Uvo, like Uvo, she agreed Chrollo was the best one to lead the troupe.

In the troupe, Uvo was a protector for everyone—the assault unit, the frontline. Everyone can fight, but Uvo loved to protect them all. Though Machi can fight and is confident in her abilities, like everyone else, she let him. It's what he wanted. She trusted him. It's what she kicks herself for with Chain Dude. She had a bad feeling, but by then it was too late. Uvo was anywhere, off on his own. Somehow the chain dude beat him, and as they saw with Chrollo—not simply beat him. No doubt, the chain dude tried for more, wanted more. Uvo, she knows, gave him nothing because that's who Uvo was. No matter what he did, Uvo protected them to the very end. To this day, Machi wishes she'd gotten to give him the proper burial and funerary care he deserved.

His big bang impact doesn't impress her because it's basically a normal punch with extra nen added to it.

Chrollo
Before the troupe, Chrollo was the enemy™. He was small like Machi, but he led another crew that raided Uvo's territory with boldness beyond Phinks and Feitan or any others. He was smart, always learning stuff off tapes no one else did, and he always used that to his advantage. Machi kept a close eye out for him. If he were there by himself (or with Shalnark), she'd take him on, but he had the dumb habit of bringing Franklin along. That forced Machi to get Uvo and for them to lose precious time and scavenge to his crew. He also brought them the Power Cleaners, dubbed so everyone could understand it. When Uvo (and Nobunaga) wanted to be involved, Machi helped sew everyone's costumes. It turned a new leaf of collaboration, a super-crew aka a troupe that was going to get bigger and travel the world. Because Chrollo brought those kinds of dreams out in people. No one succeeded in getting her on stage (as a villain of course) before it all went wrong and Chrollo disappeared for three years.

Once the Phantom Troupe formed, Machi and Chrollo worked closer together. Machi respects Chrollo most for his vision for the Spider and his leadership skills as their boss. He's the best at keeping them together and cohesive. Objectively, there's a lot in his favor, but it's not all. Somewhere along the years, he's also become a friend. While she's as willing as the rest of them to risk her life and their lives when they have to… when they don't have to? Why should they? Machi readily sided with Paku and Nobunaga to go along with the chain dude's demands in order to maximize the chances of keeping Chrollo alive. They could always kill the chain dude another time. There's no second chances with Chrollo.

His ability isn't unique—plenty of people have the ability to borrow or steal abilities—but Chrollo's managed to make it highly flexible and adaptive. He also continues to grow the number of abilities he has access to. It impresses her.

Pakunoda
Pakunoda managed to avoid getting in bad with any of the crews, and that included Uvo's and Machi specifically. Paku always knew what to say without it getting under your skin. Sure once or twice that made Machi suspicious, but in time, that was just Paku. They didn't hang out much or anything, but whenever they did, Paku never judged her for being interested in different things than she was. They found things to talk about. Paku had her way with everyone.

Once they developed their abilities, Machi has hunches, but Paku could know for sure. It was more than an ability thing. Machi trusted her judgment. When Paku made a call, rare was the day Machi disagreed with it. It took a reason or a hunch Paku had no way to check on for something like that. So when it came to the kidnapping and the chain dude going through Paku and forcing Paku to make decisions with little to no explanation? Machi had her back twofold. She agreed with the call to get Chrollo back, and she trusted that if it wasn't worth it, if something would go wrong and they wouldn't get Chrollo back, Paku would know. Even when others threatened to kill her as being 'manipulated', even if it came to a fight to the death, she stood her ground and would have bought Paku the time she needed to save Chrollo's life. Paku came back without Chrollo, and Phinks was as aggressive as ever. Machi wishes Paku had made a different decision—they would have learned about the chain dude once Chrollo was exorcised. She never got a chance to say that. Instead, she gets to understand Pakunoda completely—every decision she ever made, every thought she ever had, every moment of her life. Everything. A poor trade off for her friend.

Paku's specialist ability let her get people's memories directly, not their surface thoughts. Then she could share them or permanently take them away. Especially with every memory of its usage, Machi is impressed.

Shalnark
Shalnark was part of Chrollo's crew in Meteor City but not much of a threat. His greatest annoyance was as another set of eyes to potentially spot Machi when they poached on their territory. Like Chrollo, he was smart, so it minimized threats that they were in the same crew.

In the troupe, like Chrollo, Shalnark earned a Hunter's license, which gives him access to a lot of information so long as they have the money for it. Considering all the means to get money and that's all it takes, it comes in handy. He's smart enough to do the digging and putting things together for them. He's cheerful and friendly, so honestly now that they're on the same team, it'd be harder not to get along. He's only annoying when he's losing at cards, so it could be a lot worse. Both Machi and Shalnark fight in similar ways, despite being nen users in different categories, as seen in the requiem for Uvo. Hers takes a lot more manual work, while his is nen. It means they don't frequently team up together, so as to have more balanced teams.

Shalnark's Black Voice ability to manipulate other people is pretty basic and easily replaced, as he himself admits. For the most part it's unimpressive. Machi appreciates that he built in an autopilot mode where he can control himself, should another manipulator likely be a threat.

Franklin
Franklin was an annoying part of Chrollo's crew in Meteor City because he was too big to take on herself. He meant Machi had to fetch Uvo. Blah blah blah. Those two would tussle, and Chrollo would run away with the goods if he could avoid Machi. Harumph. You couldn't even get him worked up to distract him. Might as well try to get a garbage heap angry.

In the troupe, Machi appreciates Franklin's levelheadedness a great deal more. No matter how many fights break out, he stays steady. That was most felt when Uvo, often acting as second-in-command, was dead, Chrollo was kidnapped, and Paku had left to meet with his kidnapper. He pointed out the worst case scenario was the loss of the Spider. Reassuring. Less reassuring was his calm pointing out that if things didn't work out they could kill everyone "manipulated" (that included Machi), fill in the empty spots, and carry on. Still, it calmed the situation down. He's also great at volunteering for the thankless tasks—like buying beer instead of fighting shadowbeasts. Machi wouldn't say they're close, but they get along.

His ability is to emit nen bullets out of his fingers like machine guns. It's a basic emission ability that doesn't impress her.

Phinks
Phinks led another rival crew, mobile from his motorbike. It meant he was in and out in annoyingly little time. Not so little Machi didn't see him and throw something at his motorbike, but if he found something, there wasn't much else she could do. The jerkface. Not… not really, but everyone knew he was also a giant softie so long as you didn't say that to his face. He missed Chrollo's three years later troupe formation meeting.

In the troupe, Phinks is an enforcer but not on the frontline assault team, not until Uvo's gone and people need to step up. He's mouthy, often aggressive, and honestly annoying. Thankfully, they share the value of the mission—the Spider. There's a couple other matters that make Phinks more tolerable in Machi's opinion. First and foremost, as said before, he's a big softie. He cares more than he likes pointed out, and his opinions when they analyze things often give the generous loving benefit of the doubt. It's usually wrong, but Machi appreciates that someone in the Spider's mind still goes there. Secondly, he's serious about his costume, his real costume (not his Jucci tracksuits, though he's serious about those too), and Machi sews those for him.

Phinks's ability is the dumbest thing ever. His punch gets stronger the more times he winds up his arm. The only thing dumber is how often his opponents let him get away with it.

Feitan
Always on the back of Phinks's motorbike, Feitan was a little like Machi (and Chrollo and Shalnark). They never interacted much. Even when everyone started doing the dubs of the Power Cleaners and hanging out in the same room doing practice, the two both were quiet ones. More social people would talk to them, but it didn't lead them to talk to each other.

In the troupe, Feitan gathers information via torture when Pakunoda's mind reading isn't available or used for some other reason. Often people die, but when they're people whose abilities are useful for Chrollo, the troupe needs them to live. That means Machi comes in, as the only spider with an ability that can be used to heal, and cleans up after his mess. She's seen first hand the details of what Feitan's work looks like over and over and over again. It serves the cause, and sadly, she's seen worse. That doesn't bother her, but he also goes and kills for fun in his spare time (Feitan and Phinks both), and it creates a gap between them she doesn't quite get. Sure, she has no problem killing 2,000 mafia dudes (they're mafia) on the job, but what's fun about killing off the job the way they do? It always vibed differently than Uvo, though she couldn't necessarily put it into words for you.

Feitan's abilities do an impressive amount of damage with impressively little discrimination. Yes, the troupe's gotten good enough to get out of his way, but it leaves Machi unimpressed.

Hisoka
Hisoka defeated the previous #4 and joined the troupe. For some reason—probably because of his inordinate interest in her—everyone else in the troupe decided he was her responsibility. Unimpressed Machi. Hisoka likes to pay for her healing services, so relaying orders became a two-for-one. She'd watch his fights using gyo to see what he was doing with nen and thus understand the entire fight. It meant he wasn't able to wow her as easily as the crowd or awe/frighten her as his opponents. She never liked working with him, and when she was forced to partner with him because Nobunaga was babysitting Gon and Killua, she let him wander off and avoid the scene and fought on her own. So long as he helped the troupe, she could deal with her personal dislike.

When Hisoka betrayed the troupe, especially once it became clear he only joined them because he wanted to fight Chrollo, he could piss off and die as far as she was concerned. She only saw him again in Greed Island because Chrollo hired Hisoka to negotiate with the exorcist for him. That's when she promised to hunt him down and kill him on the off chance that he killed Chrollo during his promised pay out fight with the boss. Naturally, that only pleased him. Still, now that the day of the fight has come, when he approached Machi to pay her one more time—to clean up his corpse from whatever condition its in after the fight, nothing about 'if he wins—she agrees to the terms.

Hisoka's abilities to turn his aura to bungee gum—which yes, as anyone who has stood near the man for thirty seconds has heard, has the properties of rubber and gum—and to alter flat surfaces with texture surprise are simple and basic. Unimpressive. Hisoka makes better use of them than most people make of their abilities, along with his magician act at misdirection.

Kurapika aka The Chain Dude
Fuck that dude. Revenge, Machi gets it, but she doesn't give a fuck on his behalf. He killed Uvo. He unintentionally led to Paku's death. The troupe had to babysit him until Chrollo was exorcised so no one else killed him as he worked for the mafia or he pushed himself so hard he killed himself. Thankfully, that wasn't Machi's responsibility, and she hasn't seen him since. Machi has the impression Chrollo might want to recruit him—at least, before Paku died. She hopes it's only that he wants to steal Kurapika's abilities, but Feitan's torture or not, Machi doubts anyone with the resolve to come after the Phantom Troupe will give that up easily. She'd rather see him dead. Kurapika may love his friends, but the spiders will never be his friends.

The chain dude's entire range of abilities aren't entirely clear necessarily. He definitely used chains to trap Uvo and Chrollo. He used judgment chain to bind Chrollo and to kill Paku and, she assumes, Uvo. That speaks to an impressive amount of power, but that kind of power always comes with a cost—a hell of a high one. That makes his abilities a cheat. Machi's unimpressed.

Character Personality Through Key Moments

(2+) Positive Experiences:

Trash Team
As the only place full of unofficial people (off the record) in the world, Meteor City was targeted by criminals because its people were #freerealestate. The majority of people they went after were kids. That made it dangerous to go almost anywhere, and the wet nurses nervous nellies if kids weren't paired up or working in teams. That's why joining Uvo's team provided a first taste of freedom. He held dominion over a range of the trash heaps surrounding the city. These weren't so close to the edge they were guaranteed to get nabbed but far enough from the city center to be dangerous.

Machi roamed those grounds with freedom, enough freedom the nurses would've wet themselves if they realized. She learned to stay hidden and to spot people coming. She fought people off she could hand, and Uvo or Nobunaga were never far away if too much trouble showed up. It meant she was free to sort through the rubbish people threw out to find the treasures that were worth something. That's an activity that brings her joy to this day. She's comfortable with far less hygienic surroundings than most, and she can survive off of what most people see as only trash. Sort. Repair. Use.

A team has your back, but everyone's capable enough on their own. It's a philosophy that carried forward into the Phantom Troupe. She's studied skills and gained experience commensurate with it that gives her the confidence to back herself up with a broad range of activities—just like she did as a kid.

Power Cleaners
The Power Cleaners tape and Chrollo's dubbing efforts ended up bringing together three crews and some kids not in crews—some of the best kids in their generation in Meteor City. For most of them it was hella fun, the chance to express their creativity on stage, and inspiration for dreams of bigger stages and performances. Machi alone chose not to voice any characters on stage. She enjoyed the performances as much as everyone in the audience, but unlike everyone else not performing voices, she too was behind the scenes. Machi showed up to every practice and made some costumes (not that they were a focus, but there was talk of original content). She also practiced her much vaunted ability to say no.

Power Cleaners expanded Machi's vision of what was possible, not only her small trash heaps among the massive trash heaps of Meteor City, but leaving Meteor City and traveling the world. If they were going to perform around the world, they would need costumes (and thus her). More importantly, she would get the chance to get her hands on the world and its trash before people thought to travel across continents to throw it out. What resources existed out there? What was the world made of? Guess what? No matter how big the world is, Machi can explore it and get her hands all over it. Especially as part of a team.

Embalming Apprenticeship
Yes, yes, in three years time, they were going to invite the criminal element into Meteor City and use that to track down those who killed Sarasa and everyone involved. Yes, they planned not only to be thieves but murderers. Machi chose an embalmer who worked with murder victims as her nen teacher. She chose to work with murder victims seeing the effects day in and day out for years. She chose this work, normal and nen, not simply because Renko was the first nen user she encountered after their decision but because the ability to restore dignity to the dead awed her.

The Troupe's mission and work rarely lets Machi's compassionate core, the part of her that motivated her to pick up a garbage bag full of body parts of her friend to bring home, the part of her that developed the only healing ability in the troupe, an ability that works as well on the living and the dead. However often she critics people, however often she tells them no, she cares about her people specifically and people generally. She heals the members of the Phantom Troupe regularly, makes money for the troupe healing others (like Hisoka), and as she has free time performs philanthropy work for the poor who could never afford to hire someone like her.

Class A Bounties
The Phantom Troupe has caused so much murder and mayhem that they are officially Class A bounties per the Hunter Association. That's a high class that makes people (rightfully) freak out. They easily slaughtered 2,000 mafia men on their way to the underground auction and would have killed more except they ran out of people to kill. That's the power differential between nen users and non-nen users—and why the ten dons sent the shadowbeasts, their nen user best of the best. Uvo defeated three on his own. Feitan defeated three. Shizuku two. The last was captured alive for questioning. Even among nen users, they're in one of the highest classes. The Zoldycks are professional assassins. Silva Zoldyck said killing the #8 before Shizuku wasn't worth the price, and Zeno admitted that Chrollo would win in a fight if he tried.

All that for a bunch of nobodies, people who don't exist. They said they were going to change the world, and they have. They are. One, ten, ten thousand deaths at a time. No one looks at kids sorting trash in Meteor City and thinks 'those kids will take down the ten dons,' but Chrollo paid Illumi Zoldyck to do just that. The Phantom Troupe has accomplished what it's done because it lives true to the values of the Spider, the values Chrollo laid out. That's how you change the world. Machi believes in it wholeheartedly and would lay down her life for it like Paku, Uvo, and other spiders before them.

(2+) Negative Experiences:

Sarasa's Death
Sarasa's death was terrible. How she died was especially terrible, and finding her made it worse. It bound the rest of them together for the worse, no matter all the good they found in it. Its horribleness was marked for that day, but its reach expanded beyond personal trauma. It affected the entirety of their futures. Instead of a performing troupe, they became a criminal troupe. At age eleven, Chrollo committed to becoming a villain for the rest of his life. In three years, they would go out and wreak murderous havoc (and within that havoc systematically track people down and kill them). In three years. In three years.

That time frame hung over Machi's head. Every time Machi looked at a murder victim and helped ready them for a funeral, she faced the fact she would make people look like that. She would kill people. She would be a murderer. The loss of innocence wasn't simply that people killed that horribly, it wasn't simply that Machi would become a terrible person, it was that the whole dream—the whole troupe—would become this terrible thing. She's moved so far past this moment that the horror is barely a memory, but it stamped itself into her being. It separated her from everyone else. Machi stands apart with the troupe sometimes, but she's always apart when among other people. Even other criminals and murderers feel like they're on the other side of some invisible barrier.

Didn't Come Home Last Night
When Phinks, Shalnark, Nobunaga, Shizuku, and Machi rescued Uvo from the mafia, Uvo refused to return to the hideout. Instead he worked with Shalnark to get information on the chain dude and drank the beer Franklin bought him… Then he left, and no spider saw him again. Presumably, the information led to the chain dude and a fight. The next day, Machi had a hunch Uvo was dead. Nobunaga had faith in Uvo's fighting skills. Unfortunately, when she most wishes she were wrong, Machi was right. Uvo died.

Machi had a bad feeling she should have acted sooner. The chain dude kidnapped Uvo from amid a whole group of spiders. Surprise, poison, and shadowbeasts aside, that was enough information to know it was bad news. While nothing can change the past, Machi's left questioning whether or not she should act on her hunches more quickly and on her own if need be. Her hunches aren't 100%, however, so she could chase nothing and mess something up. Hindsight is 20/20, but decisions have to be made up front. There's no definite right answer here—only the pain of a fatal mistake. Hers. Uvo's. Someone's.

Flimsy Lies
Before the job in Yorknew City, Machi was the only troupe member to know about Hisoka's ability Texture Surprise | Flimsy Lies. She'd seen him use it repeatedly to cover up the stitches where she healed him and during fights to pretend to have reattached his limbs. Fool she, Machi thought she understood it. The ability to simulate human skin, at least so long as you didn't touch it. She hadn't realized it could apply to other surfaces, most notably paper.

That meant when Paku read Hisoka's "fortune" the entire troupe, including Machi, believed it to be the fortune Chrollo wrote for him. Because of his fortune and Hisoka's "certain death" if he left the hideout, Chrollo reversed his decision for them to leave Yorknew City. That made them interact further with the chain dude and led directly to subsequent events—including Paku's death and Chrollo's inability to use nen or contact the troupe.

Machi hated Hisoka being her responsibility, but the truth is he was her responsibility, and she knew more about him and his abilities than anyone else. If she'd been more on top of things, she could have known it was a possibility. They could have figured him out before it was too late. Instead her disgust and disinterest in him (and his interest in her) cost her too much. Machi won't make that mistake again. Perhaps killing the next Hisoka.

The Kidnapping
On their way toward the copy of the Scarlet Eyes, the troupe realized they were being followed and split into two groups. Machi, Chrollo, and Shizuku caught Gon and Killua—the second time the kids followed the troupe. The first when Machi and Nobunaga acted as bait. Machi'd had a hunch they were connected to the chain dude. Nobunaga'd failed at babysitting them, so they'd been stuck both only telling Chrollo about them. This time, the spiders hadn't been subtle, running along the side of buildings, but Machi doubted her hunch/had a new one and suggested they kill them there. Instead, Chrollo chose to trust her original hunch about their connection to the chain dude, and they took them to Hotel Beitacle.

That's where things turned to shit again. The kids not only were connected to the chain dude, but they managed to coordinate a counterattack at the hotel. It had mixed success. Neither Gon nor Killua escaped. When Killua tried to stab through her body with his hand, a classic assassin move seen throughout the series, she stops him with her muscles. Impressive, sure, but the chain dude takes Chrollo.

It turns the whole troupe against each other. Despite the rule of no serious fighting, they threaten each other to fight to the death (partially out of a belief some, like Machi, are being controlled). The Spider, the Phantom Troupe, nearly falls to pieces, which is exactly what the chain dude wants. That would be his perfect revenge. Machi was as emotion driven as Nobunaga, Kortopi, Shalnark, Phinks, and Feitan. Paku could have returned to a Spider with half its members that no longer functioned, one that may as well have been dead. Shizuku knocked Nobunaga out when he moved to draw his sword, despite agreeing with them. Franklin, thank fuck, was the voice of reason that calmed everyone down and focused them again on their purpose. As much as it would have hurt to lose Chrollo, it would have hurt worse to betray him and lose the Spider. It's a low point for Machi, one she won't forget, but sometimes her emotions get the better of her, whether they come out icy cold or raging hot.

Let Me Be the Last One
As the mindreader, Paku had more information than the rest of them about the chain dude. That's why he made her the go between for hostage negotiations and trade. That's why he bound her with a judgment chain to share no information. Kurapika didn't understand the Spider and its values. Paku valued everyone having information on someone with a vendetta against them, someone who had already killed one spider and separated them from their leader (and who could have killed Chrollo), over her life. Rather than protecting himself, all Kurapika ensured was her death as she shared the information far more efficiently than he realized was possible.

As with Chrollo, Machi would rather have her friend and figure out another way to deal with the chain dude. Though she didn't know it at the time, Paku had already shared basic information (name, face) with Nobunaga and Kortopi, more than enough to get going with.

However, Paku shared far more than information on Kurapika. She shared every last memory of hers, everything that she could. In some ways, it's like having Paku living in Machi's head. No commentary on anything new, but she can think of any moment in Paku's life and remember it, the raw memory, not the way it got told over and over, complete with Paku's feelings. It's a comfort. It's not nearly enough.

Now when she thinks and feels she just wants her friend back, whether Paku or Uvo, she sometimes also gets Paku's memory of Sarasa and remembers that experience a whole new way. Life's just weird like that now.

Deer Country Attributes

• Canon Powers:

Nen User
🦝 General
Machi can manipulate her life energy (aura). Aura also carries desires and emotions; it's affected by mental condition/state. Aggression and malice channel into bloodlust that can do physical/emotional harm if not properly defended against. Sometimes nen can last after death, purposely or accidentally, to further effect, including potentially bringing someone back to life.

🦝 Major Principles
Ten prevents leaking aura, creates a shroud of energy around someone, reduces aging, and offers basic defense against nen attacks.
Zetsu closes aura nodes, makes it hard to impossible to sense someone using nen, and relieves fatigue. This leaves then vulnerable to nen attacks, and they can still be perceived by normal senses, though they can look transparent.
Ren outputs more aura, increases strength and durability, and provides an aura pool for attacks. It uses up aura and requires training to sustain over long periods of time.
Hatsu expresses nen personally and is referred to as one's nen ability or ability. These range broadly and reflect the nen user's personality and idiosyncrasies. How well it matches them affects its power. Users can also place special conditions or restrictions they have to meet to make an ability stronger.
🦝 Advanced Techniques
Gyo concentrates aura in one body part, weakening the rest. Typically used with the eyes to see aura/nen constructs and faint aura.
In hides aura/aura constructs without shutting down aura nodes.
En extends ren & shapes it with ten to sense shape/movement of anything within the area.
Shu shrouds objects with aura to strengthen/protect them.
Ko uses all basic techniques and gym to make one body part incredibly powerful while leaving the rest undefended.
Ken uses ten and ten to defend against attacks in all directions.
Ryu redistributes aura by percentage between body parts and bridges between ko and ken.
🦝 Machi's Special Abilities
Nen Stitches || Spiritual Suture (transmutation) A healing ability. Machi creates stitches that can sew up wounds or even reattach severed limbs. Naturally, this requires reconnecting tissue, blood vessels, etc in the right spot. As part of this ability, Machi can "take a photo" mentally down to those tiny details. She uses that image to move her hands and stitch faster than the human eye can follow. These stitches have regenerative properties on top of simple suture technique that allow such grave injuries to heal entirely. Patients still need to take it easy afterward. There's still a recovery period.

Nen Threads (transmutation) Her aura transmutes to threads that can be used in many ways: to puppeteer people, to set elaborate traps, to track someone, etc. Whatever thread could be used for. They are durable, unable to be cut or torn. Their strength is inversely proportional to their length. At the extreme long end: the length to circle the globe, the strength of cotton; less than a meter, lift a ton. So long as they're still in her fingers. As a transmuter, not an emitter, they get significantly weaker once she lets go. She frequently uses In with her threads.

• Blood Type: Paleblood
• Omen: Raccoon
• Blessed Day: March 13
• Patron Pthumerian: Moss King
• Blood Power Manifestation:

🦝 General
Being a Paleblood will emphasize Machi's tendency to be void of emotion or extremely emotional. Emotional middle ground will be difficult. Her abilities will focus on prophetic visions, dream walking, and causing hallucinations as explained below. Other variations will be possible, but they will be less frequent and less powerful. Similar with any instances of telepathy.

🦝 Prophetic Hunches
Machi's always had hunches, based off clues so small she could not explain them. These hunches will sometimes come with visions playing the consequences of these hunches based off decisions taken or not taken based off of them. How accurate these visions are will drive Machi crazy for some time. As her skills with them grow, she'll learn better how to use them as she has her hunches.

🦝 Dreaming of Other Days
When Machi walks other people's dreams, she won't be as capable to influence or control their dreams as other dream walkers. That means she'll need to survive any nightmares by their logic as much as the dreamer. However, she's able to learn about the memories the dreams are based on. The time you embarrassed yourself in elementary school. The really good day you had. Whatever it is. This will be the raw pure memory itself, not the version that might be shared as a story with friends.

🦝 See It Again
The easiest hallucinations Machi will be able to project are other people's memories she has. This includes Paku's memories, the memories of everyone Paku used her ability on, and anyone she dream walks to learn memories from. These memories can be exactly as they happened, or Machi can change (corrupt) them as she wills. However, corrupting the memories as hallucinations will increase her own corruption levels.

Writing Samples

One, Two, & Three: Threads with Neo, Bluestar, & Ron

The Player

• Player Name: Sil
• Player Age: 18+.
• Player Contact: silyara#7604 (Discord) | Inoctavo (Plurk)
• Permissions: Here.

Other Characters

Pyrrha Dve | Duty overall AC: Here
Murderbot overall AC: Here
Mayerling overall AC: Here

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