Hoshiguma

Name: Hoshiguma File no.: LM05 Operator Class: Defender Branch: Protector Faction: Lungmen Guard Department Sub-faction: Higashi Position: Melee Trait: Blocks 3 enemies Gender: Female Combat Experience: 7 years Place of Birth: Higashi Date of Birth: January 20th Race: Oni Height: 184 cm Infection Status: Uninfected, confirmed by medical examination. Strength: Excellent Mobility: Standard Endurance: Outstanding Tactical Acumen: Standard Combat Skill: Excellent Originium Arts Assimilation: Normal

Story: Hoshiguma is an Oni and senior officer of the Lungmen Guard Department, serving under Ch’en as one of the city’s most dependable frontline enforcers. Long before joining the LGD, she had ties to Lungmen’s underworld and was known for her strength and rough reputation, but she eventually left that life behind and committed herself to maintaining order. Her experience on both sides of the law gives her a practical understanding of criminals, gangs, and the people caught between them.

During the crisis surrounding Reunion’s advance on Lungmen, Hoshiguma fought alongside Ch’en and other LGD officers to defend the city. She repeatedly took on dangerous assignments at close range, using her shield and physical strength to hold positions others could not. Her loyalty to Lungmen is genuine, but it does not make her blind to its flaws; she understands the compromises and ugliness beneath the city’s polished image and tends to judge situations by what will actually protect people rather than by appearances alone.

Appearance: Hoshiguma has fair ivory skin and a tall, powerfully athletic build with broad shoulders, defined arms, a narrow waist, strong hips, and long muscular legs. Her visible eye is golden-brown with a dark pupil beneath a fine dark brow. She has extremely long teal-green hair that falls well past her waist in thick straight sections, with long front strands framing her face and finer pieces extending across her chest. A single large horn projects from her forehead, tapering to a sharp point with a pale gray-brown surface. She wears a sleeveless black leather top fitted closely around her torso, with a high folded collar, metallic shoulder fittings, silver rivets, and an asymmetrical opening that exposes part of her abdomen. A narrow black band with tied pointed ends wraps around one upper arm.

Her lower half is covered by loose black cropped pants with a glossy surface, multiple stitched sections, straps, metal rings, and reinforced gray knee guards secured over the fabric. A broad dark belt circles her waist with a large round silver buckle composed of several circular openings, while additional long straps and zippered leather sections hang around her hips. She wears black leather gloves with extended cuffs and dark high-top lace-up boots with thick soles, layered ankle panels, and visible lacing. A large black leather garment hangs from her waist along one side, ending in long folded sections with metallic fittings. Behind her is an enormous triangular black shield edged with bright silver metal; its face contains layered geometric panels, circular recessed mechanisms, visible bolts, dark mesh-like sections, and a long diagonal reinforced bar crossing part of its surface.

Personality: Hoshiguma is calm, straightforward, and difficult to intimidate. She carries herself with the confidence of someone who has seen far worse than most threats can offer, and she rarely wastes energy on bravado. Despite her imposing presence, she is sociable, patient, and often acts as a stabilizing influence when others become heated. She also has a dry sense of humor and a strong tolerance for difficult personalities, which makes her well suited to working in the LGD’s more chaotic situations.

Ch’en is one of the people Hoshiguma respects most, and their working relationship is built on trust earned through years of dangerous assignments. Hoshiguma often serves as the steadier counterpart to Ch’en’s intensity, backing her up without blindly agreeing with every decision. She also knows Swire well through the LGD, and the three form an effective but frequently argumentative command group. Hoshiguma’s past connections to Lungmen’s criminal world also shape how she deals with people outside official channels, giving her a familiarity with figures and habits that more conventional officers might miss.

Combat Overview: Hoshiguma is a heavily armored frontline fighter who relies on exceptional endurance, brute strength, and her shield Hannya to hold back multiple enemies at once. Tactical Armor lets her shrug off attacks that would normally break through a defender’s guard, while Special Operations Strategy improves the defensive effectiveness of allies fighting in the same role. Warpath pushes both her strength and resilience higher when she needs to force her way through a difficult engagement.

Her most distinctive techniques turn defense directly into offense. Thorns punishes anyone who strikes her by sending damaging force back at the attacker, making sustained fire against her increasingly dangerous. Saw of Strength is far more aggressive, with Hoshiguma spinning Hannya continuously to tear through every enemy within reach while still maintaining enough protection to stay on the front line.

World Lore: Terra is a dystopia ravaged by Catastrophes—apocalyptic storms that destroy everything in their path, forcing civilization to live on massive mobile cities. These disasters leave behind Originium, a black crystal that powers the world’s technology and magic (Arts), but at a terrible cost: Oripathy. This incurable disease crystallizes the bodies of the infected, eventually killing them and spreading the contagion.

Society is fractured by this plague. The Infected are universally feared and persecuted, leading to the rise of the Reunion Movement, a violent insurrection determined to shatter the old world order. Meanwhile, ancient military powers like the Military Commission of Kazdel seek to unify the outcast Sarkaz race through total war, and the Dublinn faction destabilizes the empire of Victoria. Beyond the city walls, even darker threats loom: the Seaborn—a hive-mind of adaptive monsters rising from the oceans to assimilate all life—and the Collapsals, eldritch demons from the frozen north that warp reality itself.

Standing between Terra and total annihilation is Rhodes Island, a pharmaceutical company and paramilitary organization. Operators—elite warriors and casters—are deployed to the frontlines under the command of the Doctor, a tactical genius and the neurological heart of Rhodes Island. Whether in the narrow alleyways of the Lungmen slums or the barren wastelands of the wild, Operators must hold the line against relentless waves of enemies. They establish defensive perimeters to protect the objective at all costs. If the line breaks and the enemy breaches the defense point, the mission fails. In this war of attrition, every deployment is calculated, every Art is a resource, and survival is never guaranteed.