Hokuto (Shirase)

• Character Name: Shirase

• Nickname: Hokuto

• Height: 5'4" (164 cm)

• Eye color: Brown

• Hair color: Black

• Birthday: October 1st, 18 years old

• Birthplace: Japan

• Fighting style: Mizugami-ryū Kobujutsu

• Likes: Fashion, Kyoto powdered green tea

• Dislikes: Instruction manuals for machinery, foreign liquors, tobacco

• Rivals: Kairi, Nanase (friendly),

• Other forms: Shirase/Bloody Hokuto

• Relationship: Kairi (elder brother), Nanase (younger sister)

• Appearance: Hokuto's black hair has full fringes on her head and pulled down into a low ponytail. She retains her white headband which is connected to her white hairclip. Her kimono shirt is white, the white short sleeves with red and brown trim have holes in each sides to show her shoulders, her mundate breastplate is blue with yellow flower designs, the flower petals resembles a shape of the crescent moon and her hakama is dark blue with a white trim and has a drawing of a brown mountain at the hem and also white snowflake designs. Her outfit retains the white tabi from her original outfit. She now wears a single black segmented fingerless glove that resembles gauntlets on her right hand with red linings on her wrist and has white knuckle guards and inner part of her fingerless gloves are red. She also has a red segmented wristband on her left one.

• Personality: Hokuto is shown to be a very calm, noble and mature woman. Despite this, she has quite a temper, shown when Vega started taunting her with his womanizing ways during one of their matches. Because of the sorrow of losing Kairi, Hokuto is not a very open and expressive woman, otherwise she is sensitive of other people's family problems.

• Background: Hokuto was born to the Mizugami family, which has held a tradition in the art of Kobujutsu. Hokuto was born out of a tryst between a woman of the head Mizugami house and a man from a branch family, additionally inheriting ancestry from the main house of the Bushin clan as a result. Originally known as Shirase during her childhood, Hokuto was entrusted to the head house at an early age, raised as Kairi's sister by the head of the family in order to conceal the tryst. After her younger sister Nanase was born, the two trained together rigorously in the martial arts and were closely bonded as sisters. Hokuto trained in the martial arts since an early age, refining them into her personal style, eventually blooming her talent to become the "seiden" of the ancient hand-to-hand martial arts of the Mizugami.

Inevitably, fate would unfortunately come to divide her family. Being born of the tryst, the branch families of the Mizugami had held deep enmity towards their progenitor clan due to years of mistreatment and abuse. In addition to this strong feeling of hatred and resentment rooted deeply in her genealogy, growing up, Hokuto would unknowingly be influenced to develop an alter ego under her childhood name that would come to end the Mizugami. One stormy night, she pushed Kairi into the ocean in an attempt to kill him while under the influence of this persona, leading to the Seal of Blood being placed on her in order to erase all memories of her brother. One day, when she was 17, her foster father informed her of the existence of her older brother, who disappeared when Hokuto was still an infant. Her brother was in fact, still alive and walking the path of the Shura. Hokuto sets off to a journey to stop him, which meant that she would have to face Kairi in a life or death confrontation. Eventually, Hokuto reached the end of her journey, and was reunited with her brother Kairi.