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Legendary assassin of the Bakumatsu. Master of Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu. Wandering swordsman attempting to atone for the sins of his past. Then he finds out his master Hiko is a ryu-youkai, a nearly immortal 'vampire' who feeds on the ki in blood. And now, so is he. So much for his [[{{Resignedtothecall}} quiet life of retirement.]]

Legendary assassin of the Bakumatsu. Master of Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu. Wandering swordsman attempting to atone for the sins of his past. Then he finds out his master Hiko is a ryu-youkai, a nearly immortal 'vampire' who feeds on the ki in blood. And now, so is he. So much for his quiet life of retirement.

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Tropes that apply to this AU version of Kenshin are:

->Original: ''Characters/RurouniKenshin''

->Original: ''Characters/RurouniKenshin''

->Original: ''Characters/RurouniKenshin''

->Original: ''Characters/RurouniKenshin''

* WarriorTherapist: Less so in the fic than in the canon, partly because he is AfraidOfHisOwnStrength.

* TheAtoner: It was either WalkingTheEarth or killing himself through {{seppuku}} after the Bakumatsu, according to his own words.

** To a lesser extent, his hair. He gets rather annoyed when people mess with his hair. It’s just ‘’rude’’.

** CargoShip: He gets all upset and flustered if you take Mamosei away from him... and he calls Mamosei “he”... and Saitou calls Mamosei his ‘‘wife’’.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Dead parents. Picked up by slavers. Watched slavers get murdered by bandits. Buried everyone all alone. Joined the war effort at 14. Was an assassin and skirmisher. Accidentally killed his first wife. All the troubles from the canon... And that’s all ‘’before’’ the story.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Kenshin is usually towered over by his friends… lovers… average-sized women… random teenagers… pretty much ‘‘everyone’’ except his twin grandsons.

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*** According to {{WordofGod}} it’s deliberately ambiguous if Mamosei is [[{{EmpathicWeapon}} aware]] or Kenshin’s got [[{{CompanionCube}} a screw loose]].

* NiceGuy: Kenshin is humble, friendly, and has sworn off killing anyone. Even enemies. [[spoiler: Finally breaks this vow when fighting against Yoko Kurama, who has a vendetta against the family. Leads to a {{HeroicBSOD}} as he grapples with the guilt.]] He also adopts people into his clan readily and fathers them all affectionately. [[{{Jerkass}}Even if they don’t appreciate it]].

* RedBaron: Hitokiri Battousai, Battousai the Manslayer.

* GoodIsNotSoft: He may not kill you when he fights you, but rest assured, you don't know what pain is until you piss him off. It he does kill, he does so [[{{MasterSwordsman}}quickly and cleanly]].

* ActionDad: Kenshin. He isn't about to stand aside and let his son and grandson do all the fighting.
* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: To avoid killing others in combat, Kenshin uses his reverse-bladed sword. Later [[spoiler: after the apocolypse]] spends his time meditating to prevent harming others with his [[spoiler:out of control dragon ki.]]

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: One of the trademark abilities of his sword style, Kenshin is known for quickly deducing the moves of his opponents, though this trait has proved to be his undoing as well.
* {{Badass}}: The ''biggest'' example in the franchise.
* BadassAdorable: His "Oro" catch phrase makes him so darn cute!
* BerserkButton: Admitting that you killed an innocent person ForTheEvulz, or threatening to harm an innocent person (or worse, one of his TrueCompanions), and especially his family, will result in a swift beat-down.
** To a lesser extent, his hair. He gets rather annoyed when people mess with his hair.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Kenshin is humble and friendly. He's also one of the most skilled swordsmen, and can use his deadly skills if you mess with his friends.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's a little goofy, but is ''deadly''
* DarkAndTroubledPast: After the death of his parents, Kenshin (a child at the time) is taken by slavers, who are later violently killed in front of him by bandits. After burying the mutilated victims alone, Kenshin is resolute to “create a peaceful world where people could live without fear”. To accomplish his ideal, Kenshin trains with the master of the “Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū” (a fighting style so deadly that, to truly master, it means death to the teacher) and, at 14, became the legendary assassin "Hitokiri Battōsai”. [[spoiler:Kenshin goes into hiding years later and marries a mysterious woman named Tomoe for appearance only, but they later fall in love. After a series of events, Kenshin kills Tomoe unintentionally in battle. As Tomoe died, she gave Kenshin half of the X shaped scar on his cheek. Kenshin later finds out, after reading Tomoe’s diaries that he had killed Tomoe’s fiancé (a man who years earlier, gave Kenshin the other half of the X shaped scar) before he met her and she only married Kenshin out of revenge, but, after living together, fell in love with him.]] Broken and filled with remorse for killing countless people, Kenshin wanders off wielding a sakabatō or reverse blade sword. He is determined to never kill again and to aid those in need, as atonement for the murders he committed.

* DorkKnight: Sweet, kind and cuddly Himura Kenshin. That's not to say he isn't a skilled, disciplined swordsman with an unflappable sense of right and wrong, defender of the innocent, etc.

* EyeColorChange: Goes from periwinkle blue to gold when his dragon powers surface, or when he's angry.

* GoodIsNotSoft: He may not kill you when he fights you, but rest assures, you don't know what pain is until you piss him off.

* HumbleHero: Never ''once'' uses his infamous title to strike fear in anyone, even his enemies.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With several characters, thoguh he tends to feel fatherly toward them. It's hard to avoid once you start living for centuries.

* {{Keigo}}: Speaks like this almost constantly, and is also a ThirdPersonPerson.[[note]] Sort of. Kenshin actually refers to himself using ''sessha'', a very archaic pronoun denoting extreme formality and humbleness of the speaker; it's best translated as something like "this unworthy person", which is why Viz's manga uses "this one". Similarly, he ends most of his sentences with ''de gozaru'' (and iterations of it); ''de gozaru'' is the archaic polite form of ''desu'' and is stereotypically used by samurai and honour-bound swordsmen during the Edo period; the Viz manga mentions it in the translator notes but does not adapt it, whereas the North American dub rendered it as Kenshin speaking in a roundabout manner (ex: "I'm just a wandering swordsman, that I am").[[/note]] He later drops this with his family and his lovers; they know that he is upset when he reverts to this manner of speaking.

* MagneticHero: Is this in spades.
* MasterSwordsman: He wouldn't be one if he wasn't called "Battousai" and Aoshi wanting a duel to gain the title of "the strongest".
* MeaningfulName: His birth name Shinta means "Kindness".

* NiceGuy: Kenshin is humble, friendly, and has sworn off killing anyone. Even enemies. [[spoiler: Finally breaks this vow when fighting against Yoko Kurama, who has a vendetta against the family. Leads to a {{HeroicBSOD}} as he grapples with the guilt.]]

* OlderThanHeLooks: He looks like he's in his teens, but is actually ''28''. Gets worse as a ryu-youkai, where he is over 100 years old and still looks to be in his mid teens.
* OneManArmy: [[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/rurouni_kenshin/v01/c003/19.html Case in point.]]
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Kenshin is usually towered over by most of his friends but routinely takes down people twice his size. He's based on a real life assassin named Kawakami Gensai, who was regularly mistaken for a woman, but who was known as the most fearsome assassin of the Meiji Era and was noted for assassinating a man in broad daylight.
* RedBaron: Hitokiri Battousai, The "Manslayer".
* RedHeadedHero: Despite being Japanese and in a series that has realistic HairColors. According to {{fanon}} and/or some EpilepticTrees, he ''might'' have [[ButNotTooForeign Dutch blood in his veins]] as the Dutch were pretty much the only foreigners allowed to stay in Japanese territory during the isolation years imposed by the Shogunate.
* RedIsHeroic: His hair and his IconicOutfit.
* SamuraiPonytail: He has the long, well kept variant.
* SanitySlippage: It's strongly implied that he was gradually losing his sanity the more he killed people during his time as a Hitokiri. He credits meeting Tomoe as what saved him from going over the edge.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Part and parcel of his SuperPoweredEvilSide.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: If he cracks under pressure, the KnightTemplar Battousai comes out...
* TechnicalPacifist: He will never '''ever''' kill you, but you will be in pain for sure if you fight him.

* VerbalTic: "Oro?", as well as the aforementioned ''keigo'' speech. For the former, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGrOxc8cOuA here is an entire video]] of Kenshin saying it.
* WarriorTherapist: [[MeaningfulName Much like his namesake would indicate,]] he's able to tell quite a bit about someone by fighting them.
* WorldsBestWarrior: Even at the start of the series he's considered Japan's best swordsman, with Aoshi desiring to defeat him to gain his title.

* HeroicBSOD: Goes into a severe one after [[spoiler: Enishi makes him believe he killed Kaoru]].

* RealMenWearPink: His shirt is actually pink. He's also a better cook than Kaoru ([[LethalChef which isn't saying much]]) and helps keep the dojo neat and tidy. Also, in the anime Kenshin is voiced by a female actress.
** Anime only (and it's really more of a magenta). In the manga, his shirt is usually either red or navy blue.

* {{Keigo}}: Speaks like this almost constantly, and is also a ThirdPersonPerson.[[note]] Sort of. Kenshin actually refers to himself using ''sessha'', a very archaic pronoun denoting extreme formality and humbleness of the speaker; it's best translated as something like "this unworthy person", which is why Viz's manga uses "this one". Similarly, he ends most of his sentences with ''de gozaru'' (and iterations of it); ''de gozaru'' is the archaic polite form of ''desu'' and is stereotypically used by samurai and honour-bound swordsmen during the Edo period; the Viz manga mentions it in the translator notes but does not adapt it, whereas the North American dub rendered it as Kenshin speaking in a roundabout manner (ex: "I'm just a wandering swordsman, that I am").[[/note]] If he doesn't... '''[[SplitPersonality run]]'''.

* NiceGuy: Kenshin is humble, friendly, and has sworn off killing anyone. Even enemies.

* OlderThanHeLooks: He looks like he's in his teens, but is actually ''28''.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Kenshin is usually towered over by most of his friends but routinely takes down people twice his size. He's based on a real life assassin named Kawakami Gensai, who was regularly mistaken for a woman, but who was known as the most fearsome assassin of the Meiji Era and was noted for assassinating a man in broad daylight. Kenshin is also a subversion of sorts - because his school of swordsmanship was designed for far more muscular men (like Hiko, his CynicalMentor) [[spoiler:he ends up unable to fight as well as he once could at the end of the series.]]

* ActionDad:
* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: To avoid killing others in combat, Kenshin uses his reverse-bladed sword. This is also why he is determined to be the last practitioner of the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu kenjutusu.

* AnimalMotifs: The dragon.

* BerserkButton: Admitting that you killed an innocent person ForTheEvulz, or threatening to harm an innocent person (or worse, one of his TrueCompanions), will result in a swift beat-down.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: No matter how torn, beaten, or battered he is, a voice crying for hep will ''always'' reach him. [[spoiler:It's what pulls him out of his depression, in the finale.]]

* DorkKnight: Sweet, kind and cuddly Himura Kenshin. That's not to say he isn't a skilled disciplined Samurai with an unflappable sense of right and wrong, defender of the innocent, etc.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: He's a war veteran, has been an accomplished swordsman for over a decade, and is a strong contender for the best swordsman in Japan by the time the series starts.
* EyeColorChange: The title character changes eye colour to correspond to which SplitPersonality is in command in the anime.

* GoodIsNotDumb: Kenshin is a kind man, but he's not naive to how awful and brutal the world can really be. Just look at his head quote.

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Tropes go down there. I haven't modified most of them, just culled the original character list.

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[[folder:Shinomori Aoshi]]
!!'''Shinomori Aoshi'''

[[folder:Himura Kenji]]
!!'''Himura Kenji'''

[[folder:Himura Atem]]
!!'''Himura Atem'''

[[folder:Mutou Yuugi]]
!!'''Mutou Yuugi'''

[[folder:[[spoiler:Jounouchi Katsuya]]]]
!!'''[[spoiler: Jounouchi Katsuya]]'''

[[folder:Jounouchi Katsuya]]

These are the characters who are part o Kenshin's clan - either related by blood or by, well... [[{{Vampires}} blood]].

!!'''Jounouchi Katsuya'''