Aka

Aka

Legal Name: Hokusai Mikoto Metatype: Oni (orc variant), Ethnicity: Japanese Age: 23, Sex: Female, Height: 6' 2", Weight: 275 lbs. Street Cred: 0, Notoriety: 1, Public Awareness: 0 Karma: 0, Total Karma: 0

Lifestyle

Primary Lifestyle: Nuyen: ¥410 Licenses: None Other Identities: None

Combat Info

Armor: 12 (Armor Jacket) Ranged: Ares Predator V Melee: Katana; Monofilament Whip Condition Monitors Physical: 11 Stun: 9 Overflow: 5

Attributes

Body: 5, Agility: 5, Reaction: 4, Strength: 5 Willpower: 2, Logic: 2, Intuition: 2, Charisma: 4 Edge: 1, Essence: 6, Magic: -, Resonance: - Initiative: 6+1d6, Matrix Initiative: , Astral Initiative: Composure: 6, Judge Intentions: 6, Memory: 4, Lift/Carry: 50/75 kg (110/165 lbs), Movement: Walk 10, Run 20, Sprint +2m/hit Physical Limit: 7, MentalLimit: 3, SocialLimit: 6

Skills

Active Skills: Body: Free Fall 2 Agility: Archery 3 (Bows +2), Automatics 5 (Firearms skill group), Blades 3 (Katana+2), Clubs 1, Escape Artist 4 (Contortionist +2), Exotic Weapon - Monofilament Whip 4, Gymnastics 3, Longarms 5 (Firearms skill group), Pistols 5 (Firearms skill group), Unarmed Combat 3 (Karate +2), Strength: Logic: Intuition: Perception 2 Charisma: Etiquette 2 (Yakuza +2, Performers +2), Performance 3 (Burlesque +2), Knowledge Skills: Criminal Organizations 1 (Yakuza +2), Japanese Folklore 1 (Buddhism +2), Performance Art 1 (Burlesque +2), Street Gangs 1 (Kalifangs +2) Languages: English (N), Japanese (N)

Qualities

Positive: Ambidextrous, Friends in High Places, Bilingual, Made Man (Yakuza) Negative Qualities: Poor Self Control (Combat Monster), Emotional Attachment,

Augmentations

Contacts

Oyabun 10/2 Street Doc 2/4 Fixer 1/3 Kalifang Lieutenant 2/1 Group Contacts: Shigeda Gumi 3/3

Commlink or Cyberdeck

Vehicle

Background

Born: October 17, 2047 in Seattle, WA.

Mikoto's mother, Hokusai Chieko, is human and is the disowned daughter of the Oyabun for the Shotozumi-Gumi. Her father, Hokusai Yasuhiro, was an Oni and was the source of Chieko's disgrace. Chieko choose to go against her father's wishes and marry the man that she chose to marry, even worse in her father's eyes, he was a Metahuman. Cut off from her family and shunned by most of the Japanese neighborhoods, they eventually found themselves having to live in the Barrens.
Born human, Mikoto had a relatively normal childhood (as normal as any young girl could be in the Barrens) up until she was 11, when she went through Goblinization and became an Oni like her father. Even at that early age, she had already been forced to learn to defend herself, and after her change she doubled her efforts. She discovered that to many people of Japanese descent, she was both feared and respected rather than just hated, like Orcs or Trolls, and she began researching the folklore surrounding Oni. As she entered her teens she found that she was turning heads, and overheard people whisper things like "exotic" and "striking", about this time she stumbled upon some vintage video recordings of burlesque performance and she was fascinated. The combination of exotic beauty, power and performance drew her in and she found out all she could about the genre, going as far as trying to sneak into clubs that had burlesque shows. It was at that time she started encountering some of the members of the Shigeda-Gumi Yakuza, they ran one of the the clubs she would try to get into. It didn't take long for them to realize who she was and her usefulness to them, so they kept an eye on her, encouraged her to join the other dancers. One night they tried to get her to expand her repertoire and offer the services of a geisha, whereupon she flew into a rage. All the skills she had learned on the streets came into play and she took out most of the hired muscles in the room, only stopping when she had been knock unconscious. The men told the tale of the female oni going into a demon rage and that she would not stop fighting, and the story eventually reached the Oyabun. He already knew who she was and her usefulness to him because of her family, but he saw a new opportunity to use her to gain influence with the other Gumi, using her as a symbolic bodyguard. He gave to order that she was to be trained in other forms of combat, and she was brought in as a minor foot soldier. Her father died around the same time (street life and old age) and she inherited his katana. Her mother, distracted by the death of her husband was unaware of Mikoto's increased activity with the Yakuza until it was too late for her to stop it. Once she did find out, and after calming down, she sat Mikoto down an explained who her grandfather was, and why she had fled. Mikoto is now more driven to rise up the ranks of the Shigeda-Gumi and redeem herself in her Grandfather's eyes. For his part, the Shotozumi-Gumi Oyabun never stopped keeping tabs on his daughter, and subsequently his granddaughter, and although his hands are tied by tradition, he will bring considerable influence and power into play to make sure his granddaughter remains safe until the day he can formally accept her back into the family. After the rage incident Mikoto no longer works in the club run by the Yakuza, although she is still obligated to them, and has joined in a venture with a pair of Dwarven cousins to start up their own club.

Combat Gear

Armor

• Armor Jacket: AR 12

Weapons

Melee Weapons

Weapon	Reach	Dam	Acc	AP	Notes
Katana	1	8P	7	-3	Emotional Attachment
Monofilament Whip	2	12P	5(7)	-8	wireless, forbidden

Ranged Weapons

Weapon	Dam	Acc	AP	Mode	RC	Ammo	Notes
Ares Predator V	8P	5(7)	-1	SA	-	15(c)	Smartlink

Other Gear

Mikoto's Mask Rensaka Sensei ComLink R3 *Subvocal Mic Trodes R3 Goggles R3 *SmartLink *Image Link *Vision Magnification Respirator R4

Lifestyle & Identity

Gear

• Carried: Katana, Ares Pred V with 2 clips, Monofilament Whip, Armored Jacket, Oni Mask, 2-3 Credsticks (Standard, maybe 1 Silver)
• Stored:

Clothing

• While at the club, Mikoto tends to wear skimpy synth-leather outfits. Ensembles of straps, buckles, feathers, sequins, lace, rivets, and spikes. When she isn't working, she dresses more practically, clothes that allow her to move rapidly when need be and offer some moderate protection. On the streets she adds a armored jacket to the outfit as well as her Samurai Mask. When she is called upon by the Yakuza to fulfill her obligations to them, she is often given a full set of body armor fashioned to look like Samurai armor that matches the mask. This last bit of armor is not hers to keep and it's only available to her when she's working for the Yakuza.

SINs

• Insert Name Here:
  • Licenses: -
  • Credit: 0

Family, Friends, Allies & Contacts

	Dr. Crispin Skybear Street Doc (2/4) A street doc out of an old truck stop in the Verge that he and his assistants have converted into a quite functional surgery and clinic. You and Crispin are quite good friends, he often inviting you over to dinner and chatting beside the fire long into the night. He has expressed romantic interest in you before (you decide how you interacted with that; however it goes, he is perfectly content to remain friends if that's what you prefer for your character, but the option of having him as anything from a regular lover to an occasional FWB is viable, as you choose).
	Cairo Fixer (1/3) A fixer new to Redmond, Cairo has been pretty close-lipped about where she comes from and why it is she's ended up here. But that's not exactly unusual - no one who wasn't born here ends up here without a tragedy attached to the story, and most people don't share that kind of thing casually. You met Cairo originally when she came to pay her respect to the Shingeda-gumi and you ended up quite liking one another. She operates out of a back room in the bar called the Madwoman, in the Sophocles neighborhood east of Touristville.
	Rudhira Lieutenant in the Kalifangs (2/1) Ferocious and responsible for much of the Kalifangs' outward expansion of territory from minor surrounding gangs, Rudhira follows the example of the gang leader Dhumavati, wielding a bow and extensive face paint as part of the gang. Rudhira is well connected for a ganger, and once approached you about joining the Kalifangs, but the offer was politely withdrawn when your Yakuza connections were discovered.
	Shotozumi Hanzo Oyabun (10/2) The oyabun of the Shotozumi-gumi is a feared man among those who know of his genuine identity. To them, he is the man who defied Watada-sama and formed his own rengo in North America, and he is the one who has formed a rengo of his own, covering the fractious and strong-willed oyabun of the Americas in not only peace but genuine alliance and even camaraderie. He is a figure feared in both shadows and boardrooms. But to you, he is only your ojiisan (though you never met him, so you never got the chance every child should have of calling their grandfather sofu). You have not always known in what way, but you've long known your mother considers him the architect of your family's misery. To this day you still have no met him, though you did one morning wake after a particularly harrowing missing with the Shigeda-gumi to find that someone had hacked your commlink and placed an encrypted telecomm code in it, with only the Japanese symbols for ojiisan as an identifier.