Oboro Koukawa

Oboro Koukawa (甲河 朧) is one of the characters introduced in Taimanin Asagi 3. Appearance She looks like Oboro, pink/violet short hair with a bob head cut. She has a smaller to medium bust and below her mask violet/purple eyes. Furthermore, she wears a black leotard-like battle suit, and over her clothes typically a red coat that she will take off if she fights serious. Oboro also will wear a red dress, and again a mask when using her "Madame" identity for Club Persona. Background A Taimanin and one of the leaders of the prestigious Koukawa family. Probably born around the year 2044. She is the oldest daughter of one of the sidearm of the Koukawa clan, which protect the main branch of the family. Oboro was put in charge as the guardian of the future clan head Koukawa Asuka. She is a user of a Ninja Art, which is considered especially powerful, which allows her to move her own soul into another target. She was the only known sibling which awoke to a Ninja Art, unlike her brother Koukawa Rei now known as Ares, and unnamed sister now known as Li Mayfeng. Her brother Rei, would leave after losing most of his body during a mission in which he saved the life of the mistress of the clan patriarch, and missunderstood Oboro's concern if he should continue to be a Taimanin, as a sign to be thrown away as a useless monster. When the Koukawa arrived at Gosha Village, by the call of the Japanese Government, Oboro and her clan did not fully integrate into Gosha. Instead, they established a nearby settlement and observed. As powers shifted and the Igawa clan became the dominant power power over the Fuuma clan, they assisted against Fuuma Danjo's Revolt, year 2068. Oboro knew already of Igawa Asagi, but unsure if her bluntness, was tactical or crazy. She still harbored some like for Asagi, as the "Igawa Elders" were far hardliner than the daughter of the chief. In the original timeline, she had a conversation with the male Igawa Elder, which at this point was in charge of the Taimanin, and ran away, the exact details of the conversation unknown. Some dates and details furthermore change here depending on continuity. However, almost immediately, all changed as the Koukawa settlement, became a target of Nomad, around year 2069. Black himself, let and large raid against the Koukawa, which resulted in the massacre of the entire clan. A very young Asuka was taken hostage and Oboro, confronting Black in a fight in exchange for Asuka's freedom for the dual. Oboro was "killed" or "taken" but Asuka was left alone as promised. Oboro's corpse was used in experimentation by Fürst, which created the evil Oboro, that served Edwin Black and Nomad. Unbeknownst to Black and even the Gosha Taimanin that arrived later to save Asuka. The real Oboro used her ability "Mind Transfer/Cicada Shell" to escape her death/capture, and switches her soul into another body to stay alive. Leaving Asuka to be adopted by Asagi for the time, Oboro left the village without anybody knowing. Oboro joined the DSO of the UFS, an Anti-Nomad faction, using a disguise. As a Rogue Taimanin, she used her mask to conceal her identity and people called her only; the Masked Taimanin. As she rose in the ranks, she became the chief of the DSO Japan Branch, at the Orange Industry Building. While Oboro caused trouble in the ONT Conflict, in 2069, and became known as the Traitor Taimanin, most Gosha Taimanin and the government, that Oboro herself had gone criminal rouge and had joined Edwin Black, with the real Koukawa Oboro now able to act like a phantom from foe and friend alike, she never revealed the truth. The evil Oboro, performed her actions year 2072, in the Chaos Arena, which also would end with Asagi returning to Gosha and killing the male Taimanin elder, which had cooperated with Nomad. Asuka gained fame, in the year 2078, when she was 14 but Oboro was widlly believed and blamed for the end of the Koukawa clan. Nobody knowing the difference between the two Oboros. Year 2080, when Asuka was much older, now also a Taimanin, she ignored the instructions of Asagi and rushed into a fight with Edwin Black alone. Driven by her desire for revenge for her clan, she was defeated and her limbs were cut, with her bleeding out. The evil Oboro, was tasked to kill Asuka, not knowing the truth Asuka tried to talk to her former mentor but without success. Asuka could only be saved with the arrival of the "Masked Taimanin", which pushed the evil Oboro back. Taking Asuka limbless body, both escaped in the chaos, leaving Black and Oboro unable to stop them and unable to decipher her identity. Bringing Asuka to the DSO, the Masked Taimanin, gave her an advanced prosthesis, and Asuka learning the truth of her mentor and mother figure, joined the DSO as well. Having great faith in Asuka as one of the last members of the Koukawa clan and hope for the clan's future, the "Masked Taimanin" helped to further the training of Asuka and both went on missions together for the DSO but did not reveal that Asuka was still alive for some time. Though Oboro did tolerate that Asuka would reveal, that she was still alive to her adopted brother Kosuke, year 2081, one year before the events of TA3.