Murasaki

Profile: Beginning Age: 16 Current Age: 17 Sex: Female Birthday: October 26th (Scorpio) Blood Type: A Laterality: Right Guardian: Bear Weapon(s): Hair-tied Shuriken Shinobi Rank: Jōnin

Personal Details: Status: Alive Occupation: Shinobi Hobby: Playing with Bebeby Playing video games

Favorite Food: Ungarnished Onigiri Family: Imu (sister) Unnamed Father Unnamed Mother Appearance: Hair Color: Purple Eye Color: Purple Height: 162 cm (5'4") Cup: K Three Sizes: B105-W59-H88 (41"-23"-35")

Ninja Arts: Secret Ninja Arts: Stay Away Die Already Ultimate Secret Ninja Arts: Someone, Save Me

Murasaki (紫) is a playable character from the Senran Kagura series, who makes her debut in Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus. She's a 2nd year at Hebijo Clandestine Girls' Academy, and Imu's younger sister.

She lacks social skills, and prefers to spend her time in her room with her teddy bear Bebeby (Bebe-tan in Japanese). Despite easily becoming one of Hebijo's elite, she never attends school, and is the most dangerous of the shinobi in its history.

Appearance: Murasaki has ankle-length, long wavy violet hair, with a black ribbon placed just above her bangs, which cast a heavy shadow over her eyes, causing them to be devoid of shine, appearing darker than usual, and often lend her a sad demeanor overall. She wears a long, black dress with gray trimmings, and has a prominent bust.

Quote: Friends? There's no such thing. Not really. We're all lonely creatures. We're always on our own. And we always will be.

Personality: Murasaki is very fragile. She never attends school, preferring to spend her time playing with her stuffed bear, Bebeby. She is normally very soft-spoken and pacifistic, however, the Root of Calamity can cause that to change when she's frightened or angered.

When under the influence of the Root of Calamity, her personality briefly changes significantly. She begins talking in a much lower voice, and makes an active attempt to kill the target of her anger, often screaming loudly in the process.

Notably, Murasaki has a fairly cynical outlook on life. She considers the idea of friendship to be a lie, and rejects the notion that having people counting on you can make one stronger. In her own words, she believes people to be lonely creatures by nature. She frequently assumes the worst intent in people, and was honestly surprised that people from such different worlds as Yomi and Ikaruga could become friends. Her cynical outlook is reflected in her preference in media, with her favorite story being full of dark themes such as murder, depression and drug abuse.

Murasaki also has a strange ability, learned as a result of spending all of her time in her dark bedroom: Her nose is much better than her eyes, and she can even sense details about one's character, such as personality and social status, through smell alone.

Bebeby: Bebeby, or Bebe-tan in Japanese, is a purple bear plushie that Murasaki holds and make talk with ventriloquism. Unlike its rather silent and shy owner, Bebeby is rather blunt, telling Murasaki encouragements or critics.

Even if the PBS opening cinematic gives it a "living" side, and EV's menu with a Hebijo character selected does the same by showing it "breathing", an attempt by Yomi to make it talk reveal that this is mere ventriloquism, as Yomi, not mastering this discipline, makes it talk while moving her mouth, which isn't seen with Murasaki.

Background: Murasaki is Imu's younger sister, born into a long line of evil shinobi, with a dark magical power known as the Root of Calamity. As a child, she had no desire to become a worthy shinobi, and believed she didn't have what it takes. However, her father continued to push her to train, despite her protests.

This eventually resulted in an incident where she tried to skip training, angering both her father and Imu. Out of irritation, Imu took her stuffed bear, Bebeby, and tried to rip its head off. Murasaki blacked out, and when she came to, Imu was lying at her feet, unconscious. Her father then explained that the Root of Calamity is a Secret Ninja Art in which one infuses their body with spiritual strength, often triggered by negative emotions.

Wracked with guilt from injuring her sister, Murasaki started to close herself off from the world. Her parents deceived her into killing a Hebijo Academy exam representative, and as a result, was considered to have passed the exam and officially enrolled. However, she became a shut-in. She refused to attend, going as far as to threaten her own parents that if they ever tried to force her, she would use the Root of Calamity on them. As a result, she became the first and only truant in the school's history.

Trivia: To date, Murasaki boasts the largest breasts in the Senran Kagura universe. Murasaki's name means "Purple" or "Violet". Bebeby is most likely based on the Kumamoto Prefecture mascot, Kumamon. One of Murasaki's early designs depicted her wielding a large axe, rather than her shurikens. A similar axe appears briefly in the Estival Versus anime OVA, Festival Eve Full of Swimsuits. Most of Murasaki's traits are based around her Animal Spirit, the Bear. Murasaki has an unusually sharp sense of smell, a reference to her Animal Spirit. Murasaki's stuffed animal, Bebeby (Bebe-tan in Japanese) is a bear, another reference to her Animal Spirit. The Root of Calamity can be best described as "going berserk", which is fatally her "weakness"; this has a deeper meaning for her as a character, as berserk is derived from the Berserkers, an ancient Viking tribe, whose warriors were known for achieving a "trance-like state of rage", and wore no armor, but pelts made animal skin, specifically bearskin. one of the greatest references to her Animal Spirit. The axe in her early concepts was likely a greater reference that she was going to have a Berserker/Viking motif, but was scrapped most likely for not to be a clone of Yomi, whose design was based from Norse and Germanic culture. In Peach Ball, under the effects of Kemonar, she is clad in bear-themed lingerie and exhibits bear-like behavior, another reference to her Animal Spirit. Murasaki is still yet to have her Awakened Mode despite having the Root of Calamity. Not counting her sister Imu, despite it has taken over her mind until it was temporarily removed. She is the only girl in Peach Ball to have her animal-themed lingerie match with her guardian.