[b]Player Name[/b]

Gowi

[b]Character[/b]

Yoshi Amaya / Oroku Karai

[b]Power and Abilities[/b]

Karai was trained as a member of the Foot from her reprogramming to her early teenage years and has shown an affinity and natural talent for the techniques that have been shown to her by her “father” including combat and stealth. She has extremely fast, agile, and intelligent which makes her a foe to be reckoned with. In addition to this she is experienced with various weapons ranging from the katana blade, hankyū bow, kusarigama, and such.

Unknown to Karai, she has a bond with a Shinto elemental spirit (of wind) which makes her naturally fast as well as forging her personality into one of a realist mindset, being prone to playfulness, spontaneity, and one of impulsiveness. As her spirit connection is un-awakened and unknown to her she does not have any of the powerful mystical abilities she is destined to have and the abilities that The Shredder desires.

[b]Alignment[/b]

Lawful Neutral – orders by the Shredder is law, morality has no place in my heart and I will act on them swiftly and without hesitation.

[b]Character Notes[/b]

Oroku Saki – “The Shredder” and Karai’s father, though unknown to her he is actually her abductor and killer of her actual parents.

Norinaga Tatsu – Descendant of Norinaga Kenshin and supposedly the inheritor of the spiritual bond to the elemental spirit of earth. An obedient member of the Foot Clan that was seduced by the promises of power and freedom to do as he pleases, he is willing to show The Shredder.

Mashimi Oyuki – Descendant of Mashimi Yukio and supposedly the inheritor of the spiritual bond to the element of fire. Witnessed her parents killed by The Foot and avoided capture by being “awakened” causing her to burn down her home and the ninja with it. The clan believes her dead whilst the police believe her to be an arsonist and child criminal, she has taken to the streets of New York City since nobody cares to help her.

Yoshida Tora – Descendant of the Yoshida clan and supposedly the inheritor of the spiritual bond to the element of metal. Member of the Foot Clan and an ally to Karai that is friendly towards the girl. Shredder allows his “closeness” to Karai simply due to his role as a potential foot mystic and soldier.

Irma Langestein – Descendant of Mang Thrasha and supposedly the inheritor of the spiritual bond to the element of water. Is a student in New York City and friend of April O’Neil, is oblivious to her heritage and the possibility that she has inherited something the Foot Clan is so desperate to kidnap her for. The actions against her have not occurred… yet.

[b]Background and Story[/b]

Descended from the Yoshi clan, Amaya was the descendant of an obscure Japanese figure known as Yoshi Hamato and lived her life in Japan fairly mundanely for the first few years of her life. However, unbeknownst to Amaya and her parents—the young girl had inherited something from a very distant ancestor that was tied into the spiritual aspects of the world, a spiritual bond that one man named Oroku Saki desired to control for his own nefarious means. It was then it happened when Amaya’s life was turned upside down and her family was taken from her before she herself was reprogrammed by The Foot and Oroku Saki at the tender age of nine. From this point onward, Yoshi Amaya died and Oroku Karai was born—she does not remember anything about her life before The Foot and believes the things her father has told her about her past and that her clouded memory was a result of her own incompetence when training recklessly. 

Karai follows her father towards this new “prosperity” and obediently looks forward to it.

[b]Sample Post[/b]

“The dark alleys smell of the failure of this society of ‘America’ as those without order wallow in their own filth and shame as they refuse to take what they need to survive, relying on the most basic of subsistence and on the charity of their oppressors. New York City calls them the homeless, but I see the lifeless instead. It pains me to even bear to look at them, but The Shredder has not ordered their deaths nor have they seen something they should not have at this point in time so they are allowed to continue this pitiful existence. There’s a tug of hesitation to despise them so at the center of my body and I am not sure why as I look down upon them, why do I feel so restrained by my own inhibitions?” Karai Oroku looked to her closest ally and only true friend in the clan, Tora Yoshida, as they sat in a room in a warehouse in New York City that had been chosen as one of the Foot’s discreet safe-houses. 

Karai’s reservations about her own feelings worried Tora who had obediently followed the Foot as it was request of him by his father before his passing, but even with such obedience he felt something was off in the air of his comrades—like there was something dark and malicious growing in the shadows. With a compassionate frown he attempted to speak to Karai about these feelings of hers as she viewed it important enough to come to him about it. 

“I think it’s because you care about their well-being, thinking that if they had order in their life then their purpose wouldn’t be so without vigor and resolve.”

Karai stopped to think on the words from her friend before she raised her head with a confident smile. “You are very wise for your years, my friend.”

Tora chuckled humbly, “I suppose. Is there anything else that is on your mind, Karai?”

“Actually… there’s a lot in my thoughts, ever since we arrived here in New York. I feel like something is calling to me… whispering in my ear, something that I didn’t feel was present in Japan. I feel oddly home but I don’t feel comfortable, and I don’t know why.”

The feeling of restlessness was hard to pin down for the teenaged girl as she tried to understand her thoughts in conversation with her fellow foot clansmen as she pondered what could be creating such uncomfortable nostalgia. She didn’t like New York or so she believed, so how could she feel like it was home? Home was in Japan, not in some overtly unorderly cacophony of complacency and greed. The feeling that something was calling to her somewhere in New York worried her greatly and she did not want her father to feel like she was uncertain or unfocused—as those were traits of the failures of The Foot and not the prodigal examples as she was expected and oftentimes proved she was. But what could she do about such anxiety? She hoped expressing it through speech was what she need to do.

“What do you mean by that?”

“I feel like I need to be here, but not for the reasons we need to be here—like there is a greater reason calling me to a place I’m not fond of, a place where it’s not about the Foot Clan… but about me, like the spirits above are calling out to me trying to make me understand something but I’m not sure what it could be. I refuse to let my father hear of this or see this from me, I need to remove myself from this feeling before our work here begins.”

“I’m not sure I have any thoughts on that.” Tora admitted, feeling Karai’s thoughts were worrying for a plethora of reasons. She was afraid of looking weak in front of her father, yet she felt like she needed to be here for reasons that weren’t connected to the clan, and that it was overwhelming her. Tora didn’t like it one bit and while he wouldn’t dispel such information to her father unless ordered to, he felt like Karai was not ‘whole’ and it was hurting her so immensely that he could not bear to see her continue to do so.

“But I can say that you should be with peace with your feelings.”

“That’s a very simple answer.”

“Sometimes a simple answer is all you need.”

Karai smirked, “Quiet, Tora-kun.”