History ComicBook / Okko

[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: [[TheApprentice Tikku]], [[MasterSwordsman Okko]], [[DrunkenMaster Noshin]], [[LightningBruiser Noburo]], and [[SixthRanger Windreaper]].]]

* HeartbrokenBadass: Kubban was was incredibly dejected by Katzuki being arranged to marry Takeda that the Samurai felt he had nothing left to lose, giving him the courage to face and defeat the sorcerer Pang Lho. To make matters worse it appeared Katzuki died in the act of giving birth to Takeda's son. [[spoiler:However, this turned out to be a lie and the woman he'd loved had survived for many years after the fact, but by the time he learned this she had already died (for real) at the hand of her own son]].

* RoaringRampageOfRescue: The driving conflict of the Cycle of Water follows the characters in their efforts to rescue Tikku's kidnapped sister.

* UnbalancedByRivalsKid: Subverted with Kubban, initially. When he encounters a young Okko at his mother's grave he treats the boy with kindness and respect and even gives him a print depicting Lady Kiritsu's likeness when Okko says he never knew what she looked like. [[spoiler:Kubban's attitude towards Okko appears to have changed after he learned that not only had Lady Kiritsu been alive for years after her supposed death, but that Okko had eventually killed her anyway]].

* UnbalancedByRivalsKid: Subverted with kubban, initially. When he encounters a young Okko at his mother's grave he treats the boy with kindness and respect and even gives him a print depicting Lady Kiritsu's likeness when Okko says he never knew what she looked like. [[spoiler:Kubban's attitude towards Okko appears to have changed after he learned that not only had Lady Kiritsu been alive for years after her supposed death, but that Okko had killed her]].

* OutGambitted: Kubban uses [[spoiler:Noshin]] as a human shield in his fight with Noburo, who responds by threatening to burn the Demon hunter's prized trophy collection, forcing him to release the [[spoiler:monk]].

* MamaBear: After a young Okko kills her son, Kanji's mother obsessively stalks the Ronin for years seeking an opportunity for vengeance. She seduces so many men in the hopes that one will be able to kill the young Ronin that she ends up contracting "Plum Disease". Even after contracting her illness ([[spoiler:which ultimately proves to be fatal]]) she does not relent in her pursuit of Okko and kills [[spoiler:his lover Naoki]].

[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Tikku, Okko, Noshin, Noburo, and [[SixthRanger Windreaper]].]]

* Humanshifting: [[spoiler:Masuku can mentally control the silken threads running under his skin to make his features resemble anyone he chooses]].

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Japan, natch. Might a bit {{Wutai}} as well, with some definite Tibetan and Chinese influences.

** [[spoiler:This is confirmed in the Cycle of Wind during a conversation between Okko and Kubban, and later in the Cycle of Emptiness we see it is true, though it was [[KillingInSelfDefense self-defense]]... kind of]].

* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:Masuku/Saibankan]] towards Lady Kochika.

* ButtMonkey: Noshin is on the receiving end of a great deal of misfortune, often (but not always) for comic effect.

* EvilMatriarch: [[spoiler:Okko's mother, Lady Kazuki Kiritsu, had pretty much become this by the time he finds her at the end of the Cycle of Emptiness. She has no regrets about abandoning him, belittles him for being a weak human unlike his Hanyo brother and to top it all off shows she has [[OffingTheOffspring no qualms about killing him]]]].

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Kubban does this to Okko during their first duel]].

** Chamberlain Adaka and Ambassador Myodo seek to do this to Daimyo Oyatsu but are unable to find a good candidate, until they get ahold of [[spoiler: Masuku]].

* MysticalPregnancy: The sorcerer Pang Lho places a curse [[spoiler:Lady Kiritsu]] and her family line, once she became pregnant she experienced intense nightmares where she was tormented and even sexually assaulted by Oni. [[spoiler:Eventually, she gave birth to twins, one of whom was a [[HumanDemonHybrid Hanyo]]]].

* {{Matricide}}: We learn in the Cycle of Earth that Okko is rumoured to have killed his own mother.

* ThirdPartyDealBreaker: Ambassador Myodo convinces Okko and his companions to [[spoiler:turn over the shapeshifting Masuku to them, intending to use him to replace the increasingly ineffectual Daimyo Oyatsu]]. In return she promises that he will be able to roam the Empire freely once again, implying she intended to make [[spoiler:the imposter Daimyo]] rescind the bounty on Okko's head. However, once [[spoiler:Masuku has replaced Oyatsu, having his own reasons to hate Okko, he decides to keep the bounty in place]].

* OurSpiritsAreDifferent: The Kami are powerful spirits that represent one of the four classical [[ElementalEmbodiment elements]]: water, earth, air and fire. With the right sutras and offerings, their powers can be invoked to achieve specific effects ranging from simply providing information relevant to their given domain to summoning massive tsunamis.