Shinatsu

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   Shinatsu was born in 1823 Japan, from an affair between a feudal lord and a Kitsune who hid her identity to the country. The lord's court was superstitious, and forced the Kitsune away with Shinatsu in tow when they saw the lord's new daughter was born with ears and tail. Shinatsu's father was deemed corrupted, and consequently slain. Shinatsu's mother blamed her for this calamity, and she was left an abandoned infant in the mountains. Fortunately, she was quickly found by an unmarried peasant blacksmith who raised her affectionately despite his own poverty. The man, concerned how her arresting beauty persisted despite their squalor, raised her to be gruff and masculine to protect herself in the future, though he could not teach her how to read or write. They were bereft of some basic needs, let alone luxuries, but they were a happy family. She was taught how to forge iron, fix tools and sharpen the blades of local militia, and later found she had a talent for using them though she never received any formal training. As the years went on, their meagre finances became an increasing problem as the Tokugawa Shogunate's taxation became significantly crushing for the common citizenry. A famine broke out in the village, and Shinatsu's foster father grew ill and passed away. Taking the only valuable heirloom they owned, she used her father's forge one last time to fashion a simple gold earring that she treasures. Feeling deep resentment toward the Shogunate, she busied herself hunting wild predators that threatened the weakened village and grew competent with a blade. Later, at the age of 14, an opportunity for vengeance presented itself in the form of Heihachi's rebellion. Disguising herself as an infantryman, she snuck among the ranks of the disillusioned citizens of Osaka and joined the riot. In the ensuing chaos, she threw off her disguise and began to fight any samurai with an association to the Tokugawa. Impressively, she took down 17 samurai before being delivered a mortal wound over her heart. Captured and with her identity as a traitorous Kitsune revealed, the Shogun intended to have her executed, but his consort pleaded mercy as she was just a child, despite her violence. Choosing to pity Shinatsu much to her rage, the Shogun ordered his court Onmyoji seal her in the mountains where she remained frozen in her youth and left to wander alone, undying, for over a century. She refuses to speak on her time in imprisonment, but for what reason she will not say. In the year 2023, the seal on her solitude broke, and she eventually wandered down in to civilization with the intention of tearing down the Tokugawa Shogunate, unaware that it's long since fallen. Extremely out of her element in the modern day, she considers anything that she can't identify some bizarre oppressive work of the Shogun. When asked where she found her Nodachi, she simply grinned, and said 'Mind yer business.' An engraving of the Tokugawa family seal is visible on the expensive sheathe.

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