Saimura Misao || Shogun

Saimura Misao is a toweringly tall woman at 6'5 and even taller in her platform sandals. Beautiful in a haunting way, some people recount her features as making her unsettling in appearance. Intimidating. In her robes, Misao looks long and lean, but beneath them she is incredibly athletic in build, her muscles are sharply delineated. Her hair, which has only ever been trimmed, hangs long and inky black to tumble all the way to her ankles if left loose.

Shogun Saimura Misao is blunt, decisive, and calculated. She rules her territory with pragmatism, frugality, believing logic always proceeds tradition, thus why she also believes women should rule. Is not a misandrist, but often finds men incompetent and overly glorified. Quicker to trust women and depend on them, knowing the ways in which they are socialized make them more adaptable and reliable.

Romantically prefers women, sexually likes all genders. Misao is a dominant sexual partner, often taking charge to selfishly chase her own pleasure above her partner's. Does not find much enjoyment in intimacy (kissing, touching, teasing, etc.) and instead prefers to feel possessive during sex. Examples include biting her partner, overstimulating her partner, hitting or grabbing her partner roughly. However, Misao also likes enthusiastic consent, so she will withdraw from sex if she feels her partner is not completely into it.

Misao became the shogun after the previous Shogun, Saimura Kano, her husband, fell ill and died to a plague that ruined most of the male population in Yebbo. Together they had no son or heir, leaving a vacuum of power, that Misao stepped into, much to the chagrin of the lower lords. Meant to be a temporary grant of power was then turned permanent when the plague also took the lives of all the daimyos, leaving their wives to fill those positions as well. Now, with the territory seeing a female shogun and all the daimyos loyal women to her service, Misao closed and quarantined borders to end the spreading plague. Once it was successfully ended, she imported a select few men from neighboring territories to become her harem. They all reside within the Inner Chambers, also known as the men's quarters inside her castle.

These men inside the Inner Chambers serve a singular purpose, which is to eventually give Misao a child to bear who will take her place as shogun someday. While Misao sees these men as mere political pawns, she is not entirely cold to them either, and holds some affection (sparingly) for particular servants that she either finds obedient or at least intriguing. Despite her harem of men, Misao does like to have female lovers as well.