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Andromeda Shun
Andromeda Shun
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Original: Saint Seiya
"There is no need for us to fight. I only wish to protect the children."
A 600 year old tsukumogami that arose from a kusari-fundo (Japanese chain weapon). He is especially fond of and protective toward children, human or otherwise. Saitou meets him by chance in the modern day, and then things snowball from there.
- The Ageless: As a tsukumogami, he doesn't age. He can still be killed, but he won't die naturally.
- A God Am I: Non-megalomanical variant. Becomes a kami of protection, specifically to children.
- Barrier Warrior: His focus is almost always on defense and protecting other people, and he can use his endless chains to create literal barriers.
- Big Brother Mentor: To Hana, a much younger tsukumogami. Also to the students of his self defense classes.
- Chain Pain: Chains are his weapons.
- Dowsing Device: Uses his chains to find underground water or the location of a thing several times.
- Dual Wielding: He uses a chain in each hand.
- Empathic Weapon: Justified in that his chains are actually a part of his being.
- Friend to All Children: He even becomes a kami dedicated to their protection.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: His natural form is a living chain weapon, but he takes a human form to get along in society. He does mention that the humans who saw him crawling around before he learned to take a human form were a little freaked out...
- Don't Make Me Destroy You: Despite his power and skill (and being a sentient weapon) he doesn’t like to fight, and will more likely attack weapons and inanimate objects before their users.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Not as much as some, but still appropriate given his shoulder-length hair and slender build.
- Hammerspace: Summons chains from apparently nowhere.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: He can see kami, meaning he is in a state of pure-hearted sincerity ("magokoro").
- Instant Armor: When he transforms into his "fighting mode", he spontaneously grow armor. Looks sort of like very stylized samurai armor, if you squint really hard.
- Martial Pacifist: Unlike Kenshin’s ‘will not kill’ philosophy, Shun will warn an aggressor to cease their activities. If they don’t, then he will disable or kill and have no regrets about it.
- Pungeon Master: His primary form of humor, and usually takes the shape of saying something like “I could hang around for a while” (and then taking his true shape as a kusari-fundo and hanging on the wall).
- Really 700 Years Old: He looks 20ish and is about 600.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Calm and unfailingly polite, Shun almost never loses his temper. Which doesn’t mean he won’t calmly and politely bury you in enough steel chain to sink a ship.
- Talking Weapon: He doesn't have a talking weapon... he is a talking weapon.
- Teleportation with Drawbacks: Magical version; he can teleport to the side of a child in danger, or someone who tells him there is one. Another drawback is that it can lead to Inconvenient Summons, since it can activate unintentionally. As in, he can be transported instantly and unwittingly to the side of a child who prays to him.
- Touched by Vorlons: Blessed by the Earth Kami after he became a kami in his own right. It is a little vague if it was Darien’s power that pushed him over the edge into becoming a kami himself but it was certainly a consequence of his vow to protect Darien for the rest of his mortal life.
- Variable-Length Chain: He can extend or shorten his chains by feeding his own power into them.
Inuyasha
Inuyasha
Original: Inuyasha
Inu hanyou and leader of a hidden safe village. He's the head of the dog youkai clan (which is essentially just him and his descendants).
- BFS: In its true form, Tessaiga is a really big freaking sword...
- Boisterous Bruiser: He hasn’t really gotten much calmer with age.
- Can't Live Without You: Sesshomaru binds their souls together so that Inuyasha will live as long as he does. If Sesshomaru ever dies, he will too, instantly.
- Cool Sword: Tessaiga seems to retain its canon powers. He uses at least wind scar, diamond barrage, and barrier breaker in the story.
- Feeling Their Age: Averted. Though he's 400 or more and physically in his fifties, he never seems affected by and only barely conscious of his years and physical age.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Half human, half inudaiyoukai.
- Incest Subtext: It's never actually stated that he and Sesshomaru are mates, but it seems like it.
- Long-Lived: As a powerful hanyou, he ages, but only about a tenth as fast as a human.
- Mysterious Animal Senses: He can detect things like emotions and illness through scent. Because he's a dog, of course.
- Only Sane Man: Tessaiga keeps him sane during the insanity-inducing apocalypse, when even Sesshomaru has been influenced by chaos.
- Really 700 Years Old: He's at least 400, since it appears the Inuyasha canon was merged with Rurouni Kenshin in this universe, and he looks to be in his fifties or sixties.
- Restraining Bolt:
- He still has the "sit!" prayer necklace permanently attached to him; Sesshomaru seems to find it disgusting, but it is useful when he loses Tessaiga and goes insane, and Inuyasha doesn't seem to mind it.
- Tessaiga and its sheath are restraining bolts on him - they hold his youkai blood in check.
- Retired Badass: He’s physically in his 50’s and lives a life of peace and quiet in a village of his descendants he calls "grandkids" (leaving out a few "great"s). He seems to have given up his adventuring and heroing ways, though it's impossible to pinpoint when exactly he retired.
- Superpowered Evil Side: When he loses Tessaiga, he loses his mind and becomes an unstoppable, animalistic killing machine that not even Sesshomaru can completely subdue. It overlaps with My Instincts Are Showing - this is a natural part of him that he can't control on his own.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Instant ramen. Saitou at one point pays him for his time in it. (And Saitou goes there to eat it with him and get away from Kenshin's wholesome home cooking...)
Sesshomaru
Sesshomaru
Original: Inuyasha
Inuyasha's brother, a daiyoukai not incredibly interested in the human world, but nominally on Kenshin & co's side.
- The Ageless: He is not described as looking any older than he did in the canon Inuyasha series.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: He hardly speaks, but you do not want to fight with him.
- Cultured Badass: He's proper (if not always polite) and extremely conscious of etiquette, which he more often than not uses to make a statement about how little he respects other people. He's also one of the most powerful youkai alive.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Hair down to there, a pretty face, and wearing a furisode probably doesn't help.
- Healing Shiv: Tenseiga revives and heals all of the dead from a battle at once.
- Incest Subtext: It’s never actually stated that he and Inuyasha are mates, but it seems like it.
- Morality Chain: Inuyasha seems to be the reason he does decent things.
- Named Weapons: His swords, Tenseiga and Bakusaiga.
- Really 700 Years Old: No one says specifically how old he is, but since the Inuyasha canon seems to have been merged into this universe, by 2015 he has to be at least 700 or so.
- Time Abyss: He isn't that old yet, but since both his parents are or were a Time Abyss (thusands of years old), he's a young one.
- The Stoic: He doesn’t even seem to lift his eyebrows, emoting purely through glances.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: His human form’s eyes are gold, a clear sign of being youkai. (Never mind the vertical pupils.)
- Super-Speed: You think Aoshi is fast? You think Kenshin's godlike speed is fast? Sesshomaru literally moves too fast to see.
- Third-Person Person: "This Sesshomaru", never "I" - and even "this group" instead of "we".
- To Hell and Back: Once in the story he journeys through Hell and comes back, and Koenma says that his canon trip through Hell also happened in the backstory.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Only between his dog and human forms. (Although his human form seems to be a little fluid.)
Hana
Hana
Original: None
Hana is a porcelain doll tsukumogami who woke up in 1945 and appears as a young girl. Saitou in particular becomes attached to her.
- Affectionate Nickname: Uncle Hajime, Uncle Crazyhair, Uncle Gozaru, Uncle Prettyboy… all girls she likes are "daughters", all boys she doesn’t are "sons", and all men she respects are "uncle".
- The Ageless: As a tsukumogami, she won't ever age, though she can still be killed.
- Break the Cutie: A disturbingly literal occurrence - the hanyou village where she lives goes crazy and the parents of the girl she’s staying with attack her, leaving her porcelain back shattered.
- Creepy Doll: Mostly averted - she is a living doll, but she’s sweet and kind and only one person finds her disturbing.
- Delicate and Sickly: After a fashion. She doesn’t have an actual illness, but she is, literally, delicate - she’s made of porcelain and must be careful (so there’s a lot of things she can’t do) and everyone has to be careful with her.
- Friend to All Children: Girls, anyway. All she wants to do in life is be with and take care of “daughters”. (“Sons” she finds too rough, and since she is made of porcelain...)
- Girly Girl: Well, she is a doll.
- Hime Cut: She's described as having one, and she is very polite and proper.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Her mental age is around 6-8, and she can see kami, which requires a pure heart.
- Innocent Flower Girl: Sweet, kind, innocent, and - while growing flowers isn’t her main pastime - she enjoys growing flowers and does so for a shrine. (Plus her name just means “flower”.)
- Morality Pet: To Saitou; he tends to show paternal sides toward her even when being a Jerkass to his own family.
- Unlimited Wardrobe: Her clothes are different in almost every scene, including giving her a little nurse’s uniform while she’s taking care of a sick girl. It’s not certain whether someone just likes playing dress-up with the doll or whether that’s a power of hers…
- Yamato Nadeshiko: Younger than the standard in appearance, but she has all the traits thanks to being owned by generations of higher ranking daughters.
- Youkai: She’s a tsukumogami, in this case a doll that came to life after 100 years.
Yoko no Kurama
Kurama
Original: YuYu Hakusho
The Yoko no Kurama is an old, powerful kitsune who keeps crossing paths with Kenshin's group, even after they think they already defeated him.
- The Ageless: Daiyoukai don't seem to age, and he's at least three hundred years old, though he looks young.
- Asian Fox Spirit: He is a literal kitsune youkai, a shapeshifting fox.
- Becoming the Mask: He never had anything but contempt for humans, until he was born as one. He still has contempt for the humans as a race but he does love his human mother.
- Little Bit Beastly: His humanoid form has fox ears and a varying number of tails.
- Living Legend: Yuugi is quite surprised to hear what the ryu clan
thinks of him. Among the kitsune youkai, he and his exploits are legendary, the type of thing talked about in awed whispers and italics.
- Really 700 Years Old: No one knows how many tails he may have sacrificed to revive himself from death - but he appears in his twenties.
- Resurrective Immortality: Thanks to a spell he learned or stole in his youth, he keeps coming back when he dies.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Can switch between him humanoid and fox forms, and later between red-haired human and white haired giant fox-man.
Hyoga
Hyoga
Original: Saint Seiya
One of Shun's friends, a boisterous youkai priest who comes to tend Rune and Tintlet's temple.
- Celibate Hero: Swans mate for life, and he hasn't found his special someone yet.
- Long-Lived: As a youkai, his life span is far longer than humans'.
- Mr. Exposition: Spends a long scene telling Saitou the myths of the Earthkami.
- Muscles Are Meaningful: Played completely straight. As a swan youkai, his flight - aka chest and arm - muscles are extremely well developed, as Saitou notes appreciatively.
- Really 700 Yers Old: Shun says that he's five hundred years old or more, though he appears to be in his twenties or thirties.
- Supernatural Martial Arts: You don't see it often in the RP, but he is a trained and skilled martial artist with the ability to control ice as well as shapeshift into a swan.
- Warrior Monk: Trained fighter and devout Shinto priest with the ability to crush boulders in his hands.
