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Portrayed by Meisa Kuroki |
Statistics |
Full Name |
Kimiko Tatsu |
Age |
27 |
Height |
5'-5" |
Build |
Slender |
Eyes |
Brown |
Hair |
Dark Brown |
Factions |
Clan Tatsu |
Occupation |
Yakuza Enforcer |
Alignment |
Neutral |
Claim to Fame
The End
Reputation
Granddaughter of the yakuza crime boss Tatsu'o, head of security at the luxury hotel Niwa in Metropolis
Biography
It all started with another little girl. A little girl who escaped the life that Fate had thought to lay out for her. The heir of yakuza Clan Tatsu fell in love with a woman his father did not approve of. When she ended up pregnant the pair ran away to elope and had a beautiful baby girl. But Lord Tatsu'o couldn't simply let his son dishonor their family that way. He sent his men to kill the son and bring back his new granddaughter. They succeeded in the first, but the woman was able to smuggle the child away before she too was killed.
Elsewhere in Tokyo, another girl-child was born. This one too, was the last of a bloodline, but this one forgotten by time. Emma-O, a lord of Hell had children, all sons. And those sons had children, all sons. Year after year, century after century, Emma-O would look in his magic mirror and judge their souls until finally, he had only one son left. And that son had a child. A daughter. Because she was the descendant of Emma-O, his fate belonged to her. But Emma-O could only judge men. Due to a divine loophole, the child stood outside the celestial bureaucracy.
Tatsu'o, unwilling to let his Clan and worse, his rivals realize that he'd lost all of his blood-heirs, he sought out a woman who had inherited her husband's debts to him with a girl-child of her own. The last child of Emma-O. Still just an infant, Tatsu'o claimed it as his granddaughter to buy him time to find the real one. He planned to simply switch them out, with no one the wiser. But as time went on, no matter that he sent his best men to track her down, Tatsu'o never found his true granddaughter.
Kimiko grew up as a pampered child, doted on by her nannies but oddly her grandfather was always cold to her. Some days simply seeing her would send him into a black mood, and everyone in the household would pay for his poor temper. Being mostly ignored by her grandfather so long as she could play the part of cultured, dutiful granddaughter on the few occasions she was required to be in his company, it allowed her a degree of freedom that many young Japanese women did not enjoy.
It wasn't until she was a teenager when, in a fit of rage as his men reported yet another dead end on finding his true granddaughter that the truth came out. That she was not his blood, but merely a stand-in and that she must never tell anyone. She was just something that had been thrown away and convenient. He drove home his lesson with pain, that she would never forget. That was the first time someone hurt her, but she wasn't blind to the violence of growing up in a yakuza household and took advantage of what freedom she had to learn how to fight back in the future. It was here, learning to fight from the best Clan Tatsu had or could buy, that she woke to her birthright as the last mortal descendant of Emma-O.
Knowing that her place as the pampered yakuza princess was precarious at best, Kimiko took steps to learn the 'family' business. Over time, Tatsu'o grudgingly admitted her worth to the Clan beyond the role she played for him. He gave her more responsibility and power than might normally have been given a woman, seeing her more as a tool and less as a female. When Clan Tatsu opened a new venture in Metropolis, a casino hidden in the sublevels of a very legal hotel, Kimiko was sent to help with the endeavor.
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Character Details
People use the term 'Ice Princess' for women like Kimiko. Cool. Calm. Cultured. Little seems to ruffle her and she's about as inviting as an icicle. Her manner is refined and elegant, and one look at her clothes, or the way she carries herself and you know she's never been to public schools or worked fast food a day in her life. She also has a spine of steel, having carved out a place for hreself as a woman in a very male-dominated society, that of the Japanese yakuza.
Combat Trained |
It started when Tatsu'o beat her that first time. The desire, the need, to be able to defend herself. Kimiko is fluent in many forms of martial arts, both empty hand and most especially with a blade. She favors the katana and the naginata and can hold her own against most professional level combatants. |
Essence of Time |
By focusing on her blade, Kimiko can coat it in a glowing red liquid that is accelerated time in liquid form. When she strikes, this time decay field lets her cut through most any substances (things like Captain America's shield, adamantium, mystical artifacts etc. being the exception). Moreover, it leaves behind a thin layer of this liquid that eats away at whatever it touches. At first glance it acts like acid, but closer inspection will reveal it's not a chemical reaction but a temporal one as it literally ages whatever it comes into contact with into oblivion. If left unchecked, it will continue to eat away at whatever it's in contact with at a decaying rate for about thirty seconds before fading away. The more prone the object is to aging, the more will be destroyed before the effect fades. For instance, a human with only perhaps 100 years would be eaten away at faster than a tree that can endure centuries. OOC Note: The extent of the damage to a PC is always determined by that PC with the suggested guidelines above. |
Languages |
Kimiko is fluent in a number of languages in addition to her native Japanese, including Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean and English. She also has some degree of fluency in Spanish, German and French. |
Proper Lady |
In her role of Lord Tatsu'o's granddaughter, Kimiko learned the social arts befitting that station. She can sing and dance and play several musical instruments at a competant level. She is versed in Japanese culture and traditions as well as those of China and Korea and is unlikely to make social faux pax in any of these environments. |
Temporal Copies |
By plucking the web of alternate timestreams, Kimiko can create illusory copies of herself within a small area. Like her timestep ability, should any of these temporal alternates interact with anything in realtime, they will disappear. Kimiko can manifest up to a half-dozen copies within a fifteen foot radius, and can hold them in realtime for no more than thirty seconds. |
Temporal Healing |
Kimiko can accelerate her natural healing rate without actually aging herself by using her store of stolen time so she can heal at a rate of 10x normal. |
Timestep |
Kimiko can, for brief periods at a time, shift herself relative to the timestream so that it looks like she's moving superhumanly fast. This only affects her and what she is wearing/carrying. If she tries to interact with anything else, it will instantly drop her back down into realtime. So she could for example shift into hypertime, draw her sword, cross the room and swing at someone. Her target would only see a blur of motion. But as soon as her sword hit him, she would drop back into realtime, the cut finishing at normal speed. This also doesn't affect her reflexes. If someone fires a bullet at her, by the time she would react to shift into hypertime it would have already hit her. Likewise, if she Timesteps before he shoots, she would probably run out of hypertime before they actually pulled the trigger. She can only manage short bursts, approximately thirty seconds of time for her while a second passes for everyone else. |
Time Sense |
Being keyed into the timeflow, anomolies around Time stand out to her. Things that have been aged prematurely, things that should age but *don't*. Pockets of stopped time, people from alternate timelines, all of these stand out to her and she can often figure out what, given enough time. |
Time Theft |
Kimiko can steal time from both people and items, causing them to age (for living things) or decay (for objects). This is a slow process, taking a minute for each month stolen. She must maintain physical contact the entire time and must be able to concentrate on what she's doing. The longer she holds onto something, the faster she steals time. This is primarily used to replenish time that Kimiko has 'spent' to use her powers and always requires a PC's OOC consent. |
Yakuza Princess |
While she's not the real granddaughter of Tatsu'o, only he and she know that. And both of them are pretending that she is. This means that she has some pull within a prominent yakuza family and access to their resources. |
Wealth |
Kimiko doesn't have to worry about affording most day-to-day purchases such as groceries or evenings out. Or y'know, iPods. Or cars. Clan Tatsu has considerable holdings in several countries and Kimiko herself has considerable personal wealth. |
Free Rent |
Kimiko lives in one of the penthouse suites at the hotel that Clan Tatsu owns. |
Underworld Contacts |
As part of the yakuza, Kimiko knows and can bargain with members of other criminal organizations. |
Temporal Bank |
All of Kimiko's temporal abilities draw off of a finite source. Her own bank of time. Manipulating the time stream isn't without its cost, which means using of Timestep or Temporal Copies over an extended battle will start to visibly age her even though it only looks like she's manipulating a few seconds here and there. She does enjoy a measure of 'time immunity' however, and by using Time Theft can regain the potentially years lost to using her abilities at great cost to whatever she is stealing the time from. |
Stand-in |
If word gets out that Kimiko is just some orphan, Tatsu'o would likely have her killed to uphold his honor. Also, as Tatsu'o gets older, he becomes more and more obsessed with a blood-heir to carry on. And he knows he won't get one from Kimiko. Running out of time, he might be inclined to take desperate measures that could put Kimiko's life at risk. Or, he might despair entirely and finally get rid of her. |
Often Unarmed |
The sword is Kimiko's weapon of choice. It's what she's most comfortable and most skilled with. But it's very hard to keep it on your person on a Metropolis street. This means that she needs to make do with smaller edged weapons, which she isn't as good with. |
Reputation |
While not convicted of any crimes, Kimiko is definitely on the watch list of a number of agencies of the law for a variety of crimes that comes with being a highly ranked member of the yakuza. |
Immortals |
Kimiko's powers are based around time and so those who have a measure of immortality have some immunity to them. Her Essence of Time will have little to no effect and true immortals or those otherwise outside of Time are immune to her Time Theft ability. |
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