Shiyonichi

Paragon [inspired by Ready Player One]

Interested.

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The blade pierced through the man in front of Ryuga, but it did not pierce the former mercenary, rather Ryuga jumped above, flipping over impaled samurai. As he came down, Ryuga slashed down with his sword. “You know, you should never use a Nodachi outside the battlefield.” He advised. Nodachis were clumsy weapons and trying to take out such a long blade from a body they stabbed through quickly was nearly impossible, which was the reason Ryuga could bisect the large man’s head. It doesn’t matter how strong you are, if you can’t bring your weapon up to guard, you’re dead.

Seeing a large man get killed in one move was going to cause all but the most seasoned warriors to flinch. Giving enough time for the former mercenary to do a low dash around the large man’s body throwing a knife to the face of another samurai to bring their guard upward before slashing open their guts by taking advantage of the opening. Ryuga inspired by the earlier man’s actions then push kicked the body of the samurai toward the rest of the group.

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Ryuga sighed looks like his plans of not fighting was compromised. “Glad to have your help in cleaning up street trash.” The former mercenary said to the police officer before stating to the Samurai in a nearly apathetic voice. “Looks like it’s your funerals.” The former mercenary drew his sword, unlike his usual posture, he actually looked like a warrior with years of experience rather than a random bum playing law enforcer.

Ryuga charged the nearest Samurai with a right sided slash to which the samurai brought up his blade to guard such an obvious attack, but Ryuhad expected that. He used his opponent’s blade as a pivot point to take a step in and hook punch the opponent to disorient them as the enemy was disoriented he stepped around the samurai and pivoting his blade around the opponent’s, he slash downward drawing blood across the enemy’s spine. Another Samurai would charge at him, but Ryuga used his Iron plated Genta to block and catch his sword before kicking it to the side. He used the kicking leg to take a step in and drew a knife from his sleeve and stabbed it into the right side of the samurai’s throat with a reverse grip. Ryuga let go of the knife, letting the man fall, before drawing a handful of knives hidden up his sleeve and tossed them into the enemy group, not caring whether or not that they were causing injuries, as they were meant as a distraction for his allies to exploit.

@vancexentan @Raging Fenrir

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Ryuga leaned back as everyone else entered the building. He honestly didn’t expect Haruka to join up with him on the watch. ”Why didn’t you go with the others? There’s nothing really glorious about taking out foes who are running and I’m pretty sure Nagatoki is trying to take your rank. Plus I’m certain that you would be more than happy to give these guys a taste of your blade. The former sellsword asked, as he had a feeling that it was personal to Haruka. Sensing grudges was a skill that he had to build up in his past, as that where the paycheck or a new enemy was, maybe it was constantly seeing the same story, but he couldn’t really understand why she would hold back to hang out with him.

@Raging Fenrir

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@vancexentan

Oh I will give him more detail in his bio and connecting to the group. And I will change him up to be more of a drunken master Rambo swordsmen.

@Eviledd1984

I’m pretty sure you’re starting to intrude on my character’s shtick of being an unpredictable unconventional swordsman.

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Ryuga raised his hand. ”I’ll take watch.” the former sellsword said causally. There was some muttering amongst the gathered members of the squad, no doubt that they were doubting his skills as a swordsman. In his opinion their doubts was completely fair as he hadn’t really shown his swordsmanship off to his allies. There just wasn’t many chances of late to go all out and his style just didn’t translate very well into kendo. Not many people actually knew what he was capable of and honestly the former sellsword didn’t really care, he was just after the paycheck to survive and feed his family. He should be focusing on keep on keeping his head on his neck and just leave the glory to the ones who deserve it. ”So, Yeah mind if I deal with the runners?” Ryuga rubbed the back of his neck, thinking about what to occupy his time if things went smoothly enough that the watch wasn’t necessary.

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I’ll skip posting this round.

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I just realized my post could literally be one of Yoshikage Kira’s monologues.

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Ryuga was annoyed. He wasn’t annoyed by the fact that he was awake at this time of night. He was used to it, taking lives for a living meant that you don’t really get a choice when you sleep. He wasn’t annoyed by the constant conversation by the conversation, because unlike most of the pampered sons, he actually understood the importance of information. He wasn’t even annoyed by the fact that the shogun was being threatened by a bunch of conspirators, because screw the shogun, what the hell has that bastard has even done for him?

Ryuga was annoyed more for the fact that he was actually getting into combat. He had been a sellsword all of his life, but he didn’t really want to fight. Fighting meant that he was risking his life and he was just living for more than just himself, though if he ever fought, he was confident that he wouldn’t lose. The former Sellsword rubbed his eyes, he may have been used to sleep deprivation, but he wasn’t used to standing around stiffly.

He just wanted to end this so he could just go home and rest. He didn’t really care about the glory of combat as a few would claim, nor he did have the ambition to move up the ranks, he didn’t want that burden of responsibility. He actually prefer to just be settling public disputes over this moment, because for the first time in a while he felt that he had gone back to his sellsword roots.

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Ryuga

Name: Ryuga
Nicknames: The Swordsman of the Night Parade
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Rank: Assassin
Specializations: Single sword combat, Brawling, Quick thinking.

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Personality: Ryuga is a rather rude and blunt individual, being born and growing up in an improvised environment, caused him to take a more thug like demeanor though more mellowed out than the common street thug. He also has a more negative view of the world, which causes him to take unexpected situations as in stride, as he is absolutely sure that the world is out for him. Though despite his thuggish demeanor and general cynicism, he has a soft side especially towards his adopted family and is able to quickly connect with lower caste members of society. While he tends to follow his own way and only gives lip service to the code of Bushido to get by in the Shinsengumi, he actually respects those who genuinely follows it. As in his eyes people who can follow such strict rules and are still kicking are genuinely impressive for being able to do so.

Biography: Ryuga was not born from a Samurai family, infact he was just a nameless orphan from an improvised area who just so happened to have a talent for the sword, having first picked one up when he was forced to defend himself from a bandit an eventually using it to become a sellsword to survive. He took on many jobs for various people, gaining both fame and infamy as he became known as the Swordsman of the Night Parade.

One day, he was seriously injured after a job that had gone wrong and collapsed on the side of the road, he thought it would be the end of his life, but he was saved by a wandering samurai and the three children that the samurai took in. At first he didn’t really know what to make of it, as he had lived a life of selfish survival, but he knew one thing people were after this wandering samurai, owing the samurai his life he joined them on their journey to protect them.

He never knew what the samurai did to have assassins after him, he never asked, as a sellsword it was common courtesy not to ask about a person’s past or the reasons behind a job. He just kept on following them and fighting along side the samurai to repel his assassins and the group became something he never had before, a family.

However, one day a particularly powerful assassin simply as Yon, was sent after them, who was more than a match for the two of them. The Samurai took a fatal blow for Ryuga and left a brief opening that allowed Ryuga to exploit and take the assassin’s left eye. The assassin retreated after that, having suffered an injury, the assassin decided it wasn’t worth it to risk his life any further.

Ryuga took the children under his care, he decided after that encounter continuing to travel wasn’t safe and bought a small home and hired a caretaker in the city, by collecting a few bounties. He joined the Shinsengumi to continue providing for the children, due to the fact that they valued merit over family names, meaning someone like him who had none, could get in. He also didn’t want to have the children he takes care of to get influenced by his line of work as a sellsword and end up on the wrong side of the law.

Fighting Style: His style doesn’t have an official name, as he has never been trained in an official sword style. Instead his style is an amalgamation of self training, on the spot improvisations, and moves that he copied from watching other swordsmen, making an extremely fluid hybrid style that is described as fighting a person who has been possessed by a hundred demons. It is both versatile and combined with him throwing out kicks, punches, and throwing knives, it makes it unpredictable. However, it’s greatest weakness is in it’s lack of discipline and lack of focus, which leaves it with no real physical strengths or weaknesses as it doesn’t really specialize in any specific technique, making it a jack of all trades style.

Preferred Weapon(s): Katana, Throwing Knives, Iron plated Gentas.