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Name - Atsukawa "The Remaining" Hisame

Name Meaning - Frozen Rain

Species - Human

Gender - Female

Birthdate - March 4th, 1822

Age - 195 years

Nationality - Japanese

Height - 5'6''

Weight - 116 lbs

Dexterity - Ambidextrous

Occupation - Drifter

Accouterment - Katana

Weapon Name - Juudai-na-Shi; Fateful Death

Training - None

History

Hisame enjoyed a rather pleasant upbringing with her brother and parents; her father a respected samurai and her mother a simple woman who practiced the arts of cooking, sewing, floral decoration and music. While close to her brother, most of his time was spent learning swordsmanship behest their father. Although she had a fascination with the sword, insomuch to privately mimic the motions she saw while her brother practiced, the interest was always fleeting. After being scolded by her father, she gave it up completely. Instead she practiced the skills gleaned from her mother.

She became renown in her village and the surrounding towns for her beautiful floral arrangements and skill with the koto and flute, even asked to join a traveling company as a musician; her heart remained at home, and she remained there as a respected and helpful member of the village. Her attention remained fixed to her family and their honor, as well as refinement of creative skills.

This changed when her brother died of illness; in his angered agony over loss of his only heir, Hisame's father turned to drinking as an outlet, shutting out his family from his thoughts and feelings. One night, amid heavy drinking, an altercation with a stranger resulted in a duel; the duel resulted in his death. Hisame's uncle was left to fill the void in her life, but their father's shame remained a stain upon their names in the behind-the-back talk of locals.

The next turn happened when she met a man while selling flowers. A kind, affectionate and gentle soul, the two become close; the next spring, he asked her to marry and she instantly accepted. But the newlyweds met ill fortune when their village is ransacked by marauders. Hisame's uncle and husband are killed before her eyes, along with most of the other men and all the woman that resisted. 

As for Hisame and her mother, they are passed along the bandits for several days, raped as deemed fit. In time, she learns of her mother's murder, and with it, whatever hope to see the nightmare's end perished as well.

At nightfall, she woos the guard off of one of the bandits, stealing his wakizashi and slitting his throat before making an escape. Hisame ventures to the surrounding woods and enters the village graveyard; famished, exhausted and dehydrated, her strength gives out before her father's tombstone. She weeps to heaven in lamentation and curses to her father for being a fool that could not protect his family. Desire to live gone, she places the blade to her throat and resolves to slash it open.

It's then that a whisper enters her ears, seemingly from nowhere. It asks her questions of her feelings and desires; her only answers involved vengeance. So they offered power to take revenge at the cost of her life; having already chosen death, she acquiesces. Her gift is a repugnant katana branded the Fateful Death. She's informed that she need but focus her soul into the sword and it will do the rest.

So she ventures back to the village, far from fearful while she does as suggested and creates a midnight nightmare made real. The fools that throw throw themselves at her find her seemingly unaffected, even aroused by the gashes and blood their edges spill from her generous flesh. Them that chase candelight in search of sanctuary find it breathed out and the darkness of a blackened moon their ally; those that run are stalked through the streets, corridors and bedrooms until everyone in the village, even the victims of the raid, are massacred. 

Her pain recompensed, she stands in the square of the village to behold what she had both wittingly and unwillingly wrought: an ocean of blood, brutalized bodies and child death. Hisame returns steel to her throat and slices it open; laying silent as she bled to death, she is left astonished at how long it took. Then the laughter of the whisperer enters her mind to remind her of her vow: her life was theirs and the death she sought would not come as simply as she desired. Instead, they told her of the many evil people who were doing the same thing as what happened to her family and loved ones, and that she was fully capable of destroying them. 

Therefore she ventured in search of wicked people worthy of her steel by day; unbeknownst to her, by night her body wanders in control of her devilish counterpart, murdering whoever unfortunate enough to cross paths.

Eventually aware of the devil that puppets her at its whim, she now she seeks death most of all, that she may be free of her vexation and reunite with her family at last.

Abilities

Death's Chosen (Passive) - Hisame is bound to the death spirit of her sword. This spirit prevents her from dying by means which do not annihilate her body and heals incurred infliction; the time taken to heal depends upon severity of the injury. It bestows eternal youth and  keeps her alive in the event of critical blood loss or incapacitating; reaching these states will result in the spirit possessing her body but it may also assume control at whim.

Bloodthirsting Blade (Passive) - Hisame's sword thirsts for human blood; if it cuts the flesh of another, the wound will become infected. This infection releases endorphins and adrenaline to numb pain and increase blood flow; it causes platelet death at the wound resulting in an inability to close via scabbing and thus creates perpetual bleeding.

The Sacrifice of Blood (Passive) - The Fateful Death may produce spirit-based miracles when it drinks human blood, including Hisame's; use of this blood will drain and parch the blade. The sword may also call blood from nearby open sources such as wounds for a distance of up to 15 feet. Blood created from the miracles is spirit energy made manifest and hence unable to be drank by the Fateful Death.

The Kingdom to Come - Hisame may pull other beings into the realm of spirits. This is by a fashioned event which acts as a trigger to bring the would-be victim over to the other side by fueling their belief in it. This can be done in many ways; for example, if one finds an artifact she has left behind, it may result in some paranormal activity. If the person accepts it as real, the pull the spirit world has over the individual will strengthen; so as more triggers are accepted and their mind is further enticed, the deeper they delve into the spirit realm. Comparable to Silent Hill, it can become very difficult to escape once a level of belief has been passed and the line between realms crossed. What character and environment the world will have is subject to variation given specific triggers.

In this realm spirit energy is abundant and very little of her spirit energy is needed to satisfy the cost of spirit-based attacks which do not require blood (such as a force slash or barrier of will). Therefore if the one(s) she brings with her are adept in use of spirit energy their abilities will also have significantly reduced cost. All blood cost for the Fateful Death are reduced by two-thirds.

The Revelation - Hisame becomes possessed by the spirit of the Fateful Death whether by its want or necessity. She is able to modify her voice tone and volume, control sources of open flame or light, utilize telekinesis, levitation, flight, make herself invisible to the natural eye and manifest copies of herself or other spectral forms. 

Her spirit energy becomes dangerous to the living with effects developing quickly. Inhalation results in severe inflammation of the throat to the point of suffocation and the lungs quickly fail due to tissue death. Contact with the skin results in aggressive necrosis and contact with eyes causes rot unto blindness. Contact with Hisame's own flesh, such as with a hand to an arm, results in immediate tissue and muscle death.

This is the expected form to be fighting from the start should the battle take place at night.

@Rilla I haven't used Aki in quite some time; that might change. She's on ice, but maybe her heart will melt.

@ImportantNobody I'm honestly not a fan of the majority of their fights. Tifa vs. Yang was a mismatch, but hey, two "iconic" battle vixens will get people to watch, even if Yang isn't relevant to anything apart from some creation from Monty Oum, who is now also dead. However, I did find ScrewAttack's interpretation of Premium Heart and Final Heaven interesting.

It probably stems more from their utter inability to choreograph swordplay apart from basic 2D Guilty Gear animations. Seeing Cloud vs Link made me laugh out of pity over how poorly storyboarded their actions where; Also, the Sephiroth-Virgil fight. I got to watch Sephiroth use a blade beam attack, then just stand there to see if something would happen. What a marvelous choice from SOLDIER's finest, who is also a brilliant tactician in combat. Let's just... stand there and not have any follow-up because my puppeteers are imbeciles. As long as our viewers keep eating up our garbage.

Their 'no research' approach to One Minute Melee fits well since they have no idea who Sephiroth is; yet they nailed Sakuya Izayoi's style in her match; not to mention the Masamune wasn't long enough.

Although, people are already paying those two and their team for mediocre quality.

Hmm. I ranted more about that than I thought I would. 

@Gun Your characters all seem pretty high-power. I'd be at a significant mismatch if I used the one I wanted; though I do have one designed for higher tier fights.

Now I miss playing Yufi... choices.

@MelonHead Not even the People's Champion started at the top of the ladder. The Rock says I gotta know my role and get my push toward the title via the low-mid cards; then I'll have to cut a few promos to stir the crowd.

It's just best for business.

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