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Name: Minamoto Uesugi
Gender: Male
Weapon: No Dachi and Katana he learned to duel wield.
Appearance:
Affilation: Nobunaga
Background History: A samurai who was related to the Uesugi clan by marriage. He tained in the No Dachi dojo while training himself to use his katana. He concentrated greatly on strength in his right arm so he could hold the No Dachi with that arm while holding the katana in the other. He kept this sercret from his Senci, and when he fought his senci as a test, he surprised him with a sneak attack with his katana. By doing so, he accidentally injured his master, and maimed him. He was forgiven, however, he left the dojo in disgrace. He would have commited seppuku, however, his senci ordered him not to, and force him to live by honor.
Later, he came to marry one of the Uesugi relatives. Rather than changing her name, he changed his name because it held alot more value. When the Uesugi clan crumbled he lived through the battle and left to fight as a ronin. Later, however, he saw the true power of Ode Nobunaga and went to serve under him. He hid his past life and fights under Nobunaga as a simple samurai soldier, that is it, and is yet to show his unique ability of the duel wield.

Name: Xiao Ling
Gender: Female
Weapon: Scimitar and Bow and Arrows.
Appearance: She is rather tall for a woman at 5'9" tall and has long black hair that goes down to the middle of her back. She has a tattoo of an arrow pointing down underneath her left eye. She has dark saphire colored eyes and is quite beautiful even with a tattoo on her face. She doesn't wear any make-up at all. She wears blue light armor on her upper body that accentuates her features well, and a short skirt that goes down to her upper mid thighs and has long blue leggings that go to about four inches below the skirt. She has leg armor that goes over the leggings and trail into metal greaves. On her arms there are silver bands of metal just below the shoulder at the top of the bicep.
Affilation: Wei, Xiahou Dun mostly.
Background History: Ling was born 13 years before the yellow turban revolt and lost her family during the rebelion. Xiahou Dun was there to protect her when one of the turbans tried to have his way with her. She stabbed the turban in the stomach with a broken spearhead and Dun came in to finish the job with a clean slice accross the back of the man's neck. She saw Dun as a man to be admired and he took her in. She wanted to train under him so badly and he let her. She became quite adept with a scimitar, just as he was, and even learned Archery from her new Uncle Xiahou Yuan. Now she is around the age of 22 or so and as an act of loyalty to her "father" Xiahou Dun she got a tattoo under the same eye that he had lost in battle to show everyone that she is the student of the One Eyed Warrior.

Name: Nobutoki Mibu (Nicknamed the Tyrant Lightning)
Gender:Male
Clan Name:Mibu Clan
Side: Self at the Moment. His spies keep their eyes on both
Weapon: Senshu Rakurai, a katana that is roughly 3/2 times as wide as normal, with a chinese broadsword's hilt
Appearance: Standing at 5'11", Nobutoki usually wears his hair long. wearing a plated headband, he styles his hair much like how Sol badguy does, though. free ontop, ponytail on bottom. often wearing his red clad armor, he sports the emblem of his clan which is a cross that has the north star embedded in it, and with that north star is a yin-yang in the center with the two dots to be part of the north star, symbolizing their purpose. to destroy tyranny. red scaled plating is his main choice of armor, but he mixes both chinese and japanese to suit his sword. his helm is that of a horned demon's head. scaled and with two horns protruding from each side.
Background History: Nobutoki has led the Mibu Clan ever since his tenth birthday. Known to have been a gentle soul, he was often called the "Tyrant Lightning" because when he noticed tyranny in his nation, he often killed the tyrant personally. He may be ruthless, he may seem cold, but he is kind. He prefers to serve under a true ruler than a foolish one, a virtuous one than a tyrant. Because of his leadership of the Mibu Clan and his spare time, he is often searching for ancient relics that are actually scrolls of the deadly arts he sought. Those Scrolls contain the Arts that were spread to the ruling clans of Wu, Shu, and Wei. As Nobutoki found this out, he had hoped that not even the rulers knew. So he searched the plains for the three puzzle pieces to the Hokunan Senshu Rakurai art. However, since those arts will only boost him, he practiced every art he could, often gracing various well-known masters with his presence to learn, no matter how much he had to suffer. As a master of the deadly arts, Nobutoki is a deadly swordsman. he often says this when he captures someone:
"Join the Mibu and see for yourself what harmony between a lord and his people really is."
That... is his favorite thing to tell his captured prisoners. If they do not join him, he often laughs at them... and gives them a pat on the back and lets them go. He's too kind, that is his main fault, though. Other than that, he is a nice person with nerves of steel in battle... for his quest to find the relics he was supposed to find continues. And if he rules China in the process, his virtue can spread to the lands of China as well... or so he hopes.

(Side note: I am working on a manga based on Nobutoki. Please Role Play to your best, I'd love to get inspiriation from my fellow RPers! And I will do my best to provide credit where it is due.)

Name: Hanaka Kasumi, which translates to red blossom veiled in fog.
Gender: Female
Weapon: Two twin hilted short swords, one named 'Amaya', meaning "night rain", and the other named 'Rin' meaning "cold". She also utilizes a small bow fitted with poison arrows for a stealthy approach to enemies.
Appearance: A dark purple edo robe, that flows down her entire body, tied with a dark black sash. Her hair is medium length, jet black hair that doesn't need to be tied up to hinder her movement at all. She uses little armor on her body, intent to move faster so as not to be with anything to begin with. Not all that tall at only 5'5, which was a normal height for women back then. It usually helps her hide even easier.
Affilation: Mibu Clan, a good friend of Nobutoki's.
Background History: As a young woman she was a rebel, didn't much want to do anything asked of her, and stole off from her household to seek her own fortune in her true passion: battle. On her travels aroudn Japan she met a young man by the name Nobutoki, and quickly became friends with him. She thought he was a passionate leader for a great cause and decided to join his army to help battle to bring peace to the land. They journeyed to a new land, not known by either, where they decided to try to unite this land on the Mibu banner. Considers Nobutoki as a brother, and she also likes both men and women, which her 'brother' seems to approve of. She prefers to fight enemies one at a time, so they can never see what's coming. Sometimes regarded as the 'Fog of the Earth' for her keen abilties to not be seen until the last possible second.

I'm guessing your character's japanese ey? wink

Both characters approved and 100% role-playing efficient. xp Sorry it took me so long to approve yours Jen. sweatdrop

Name: Tsukiko (Original name Susumu Katsumi)

Gender: Female

Weapon: Tsukiko uses stars, kunai knives, smoke bombs and needles. Her main weapons are two swords that are the length of her thighs, both of them are just slightly curved. One is shorter than the other. (I know that this is a lot of weapons, but I'm just putting down what any ninja would have.)

Appearance: For traveling(depending) or battling, Tsukiko wears a slightly puffy one-piece black outfit where she hides all of her weapons in. There are special strings that she has sewn into the fabric to where if she pulls on them the entire outfit gets tight. On her feet are simple tabi, and occasionally she'll wear tabi with special soles so that way it looks as if an animal left tracks instead of a human. With this battle outfit, she sometimes keep her lower face hidden underneath a cloth that's a part of the outfit and pulls her hair back into a tight bun, not a single hair loose. Out of battle and only occasionally when she's traveling, Tsukiko wears a crimson kimono with sakura images on it, a kimono of her mother's that she deeply treasures as it was the female side of the family's most prized position; so she now keeps it as hers. In this, one can see that her skin is a soft delicate white with a pair of soft golden eyes, the reason why she had been named Katsumi when she was born(Katsumi means "beautiful eyes"). Her hair, smooth, strait and jet-black, is either freely laid out on her shoulders or neatly tied back and she sometimes carry a small red umbrella with her. She is thin and light, yet still muscular although this is hidden beneath her clothes. Height wise Tsukiko isn't exactly the tallest, perfect for a kunoichi.

Affilation: Yukimura Sanada.

Backround History: Tsukiko was born underneath the name Katsumi because of her strangely colored eyes in a small town in Japan. Bandits came and raided her village, killing her family in the process. Orphaned, she was picked up by a band of ninja who saved her. Now in their debt, she was trained as a kunoichi (this is how kunoichi were usually trained, occurding to Wikipedia at least XD). Then once she was old enough she left her clan for reasons she will not reveal, heading off to serve underneath the Takeda clan and changing her name from Katsumi to Tsukiko, which means "moon child." Being herself she set herself to staying alongside Yukimura, finding his deep sense of honor and spirit very respectful. Despite this, when she first met Yukimura she laughed at him, finding his ideas rather pathetic and stupid until she grew to knew him better. She looks up to Yukimura, for he is the one who reknewed the sense of honor she once had when she'd been but a child. This is the reason she stood more beside Yukimura than anyone else. She briefly disappeared on some "business", and is now traveling through China to find the samurai dressed in crimson armor.

I thought it'd be fun to make a ninja for Yukimura since Kunoichi isn't there. XD Is this alright?

Of course! ^^ Shidobu is welcomed to act as if he's the main captain by all means since I'm not always on... sweatdrop