Name: Samanosuke Shinomori Race: Hylian Age: 18 Gender: Male Place of Origin: Gerudo Fortress PWC: 5/1/2 Treasures and Rupees: Racial Traits Spin Attack Hawk Eye (Twisted here) Sense Business (Profession: Samurai) Normal Treasures Profession: Samurai Level 4 Wall Kick Rage Gerudo Dragon Navigation Pulse Adventure Pouch Snowshoe Ring Skulltula Suit Major Treasures Ring of Deuce Kinstone Pieces Violet Clover Violet Feather Green Clover Rupees: 30 Equipment: Samanosuke carries with him two simple katana, one on each hip, which he is often seen dual wielding. On a rare occasion he will only use a single katana. As for armor, he wears only the most basic leather armor, and only on his upper body. He wears a worn leather breastplate and two worn leather bracers. Mount: Samanosuke's mount is a simple chestnut brown horse. Known Associates: Vargus: Inn Keep in the city of Ruto. Malory: A girl from Ruto village and waitress at the local inn. She has caught Samanosukes eye but they haven't started dating yet. Yousef: A Northern Hylian in service of the army. He has a small band of mercenaries that he calls upon when the army is stretched too thin to handle a situation. While in a fight himself he is typically armed with his mace Magebane, comprised of Litonium and Cold Iron, and a Mirror Shield. Appearance: Samanosuke is a 'round-eared' Hylian standing at six foot two inches tall, weighing just over two hundred pounds. His skin has a nice tan to it thanks to the desert sun, which compliments his sandy blonde hair. Partially hidden beneath his bangs are blood red eyes, the only clue that his family is descended of a Shiekah. He has a rather muscular build, even for a Hylian, stemming from the amount of training he has undergone. He doesn't wear very much in the way of armor, prefering not to weight himself down. His usual attire is a simple long-sleeve brown tunic with matching pants and shoes. Personality: Samanosuke was only three when Ganon invaded and forced him from his home in Rauru Village. He doesn't remember much of this traumatic event other than the sheer terror he felt as a boy. Growing up in Gerudo Fortress he began his training at the young age of five after finding out that his mother had been lost in the attack only two years ago. While some of the children his age mourned their loss unable to cope with it, he was part of a different group of children. Those that weren't sad at their loss, but rather angry. Angry at Ganon for taking away their loved ones. Angry that there was nothing they could do then nor now. Angry that his father had waited to long years to tell him that he wouldn't ever see his mother again. That anger pushed him to act out, and get in trouble. That aggression, that anger, he was taught to harness it when he was steered towards his training. Year after year would pass, but still Samanosuke would train. With each year that passed his anger would only grow not having a proper outlet to release it. The training kept him focused most of the time, only really losing his cool during a sparring match. At the age of ten they began to focus his training on better harnessing his rage, as well as better controlling it. Over the course of two years Samanosuke learned to tap into that rage during a fight, only during a fight, and only when he wanted to. While his training increased in difficulty over the next six years, Samanosuke's personality seemed to soften. With his anger finally under control he was finally able to think clearly and show compassion to those around him. It took him seven long years to realize that those around him were suffering too, and he did his best to ease that suffering during his final six years in Gerudo Fortress. Background: Born in Rauru Village only three years before the invasion, Samanosuke would never truly know his home or his mother who died during the invasion. Fire, smoke and fear are all he remembers of the day that Ganon's forces laid siege upon the small village that was his home. His father, unable to find Samanosuke's mother, took their son and fled the village praying for his wife's safety. Rauru Village wasn't far from the Eastern Caves, and so that was where Samanosuke's father fled. While the Gerudo weren't overly fond of the influx of Hylian refugees, it would mean that they wouldn't have to kidnap men to propagate their race any longer. The Gerudo offered refuge to the Hylians in return for them taking over the more service-oriented professions: food gatherers, cooks, and the like. While other Hylians were able to continue their previous craft if they were something useful such as a blacksmith, or tailor. This arrangement allowed for the Gerudo to focus even more on their training, taking a few of the more talented Hylian's into the training regimen along the way. For two years Samanosuke was kept with the other small children under the watch of the younger women who had managed to escape alive. One day when asking his father about his mother for the umpteenth time, his father finally revealed the horrible truth to him. That one of the recon teams had found her body in their home. Samanosuke was furious, he called his father a liar and began to hit him as hard as he could with his little fists. He was inconsolable. Nothing his father, or any of the young women that had watched over him for the last two years, said could get the boy to calm down. He stormed away from his father with tears in his eyes. He wanted to be alone and so he found what he thought was a corner he could be alone. He was wrong, a few of the older children had found him. They began to pick on him for crying, and that was the first time that Samanosuke ever truly tapped into his rage. He stood up and charged at the group of three children. The first one to feel his wrath was a seven year old who got a headbutt to the stomach. It was so unexpected that the boy went down almost instantly, angering his two six year old friends. They charged Samanosuke together yelling at him while throwing punches. To their surprise the small five year old didn't fall, but rather fought back. A swift kick to one of their shins caused enough pain to have him back away just long enough for Samanosuke to unload his own flurry of punches on the other six year old. The one that had been kicked was terrified. How was a five year old able to take down two of his friends so quickly. Before he could come up with an answer he noticed Samanosuke's eyes were now locked onto him. He would feel something warm running down his leg only to notice that he was peeing his pants. He was terrified of a five year old. Of a kid that was smaller than him. Of a kid that was already beat up. The look in that childs eyes had shaken the boy to his core, causing him to not only pee his pants but to run away in terror crying for help while Samanosuke chased after him. It didn't take long for Samanosuke to catch him. The boy that he was chasing was slipping and stumbling as he ran in fear, while Samanosuke's run was solid. Samanosuke had tackled the boy into the leg of a table causing it to tip over and cause quite the uproar as he proceed to wail on the larger boy beneath him. Before any of the Hylians could react, one of the Gerudo would step in and carry Samanosuke off. The Gerudo had taken Samanosuke to the training area setting him down in the middle before taking a few steps back and crouching down. In his blind rage Samanosuke attacked the adult Gerudo, only to be knocked on his backside. This repeated for a little while drawing more and more spectators, Hylian and Gerudo alike, including Samanosuke's father. His father would cry out for the Gerudo to stop, but she wouldn't. He tried to make his way to his son, but was stopped by other Gerudo who only shook their head and told the man to watch. Any normal child would have stopped trying by now, but Samanosuke kept at it. He could barely get back up, but he kept forcing himself to. He kept getting back up and trying to fight a full grown adult who had trained their whole life. Finally he was knocked away, landing firmly on his backside, but was too tired to stay upright. He fell onto his back, breathing hard his face flushed a brilliant shade of red. After a few seconds on his back he got back up, the expression on his face slightly softer than it had been. Once more he charged at the Gerudo, but instead of attacking he buried his face in her chest and began to cry once again. The Gerudo would pick him up and begin to comfort him. His rage had finally subsided, and Samanosuke had returned to what he was. A grieving child. The next day that same Gerudo came to his father and told his father that he had a great gift. That Samanosuke could be a great warrior if he began his training right now. His father would look at him with concern but consented. He had been unable to console his son, but this woman had. He entrusted Samanosuke's future to her. Over the next five years Samanosuke trained in hand to hand combat, as well as partaking in strength and speed training. His results weren't as amazing as any of the Hylian children that were training alongside him. He was often quick to anger, and his focus and form suffered because of that. Finally the Gerudo decided to teach him to control and harness his anger, his rage, properly. It took two years of focused training, but the boy did it. He mastered his rage. Once it was mastered it was as if a weight had been lifted off of his small chest. He smiled for the first time in seven years. He apologized to his father and everyone else that lived in Gerudo Fortress for all of the problems he had caused over the years when he wasn't training and promised that he would make it up to them. He has spent the last six years helping the people of Gerudo Fortress whenever he has a spare moment away from training. The training started by perfecting his natural senses so that all of the time and effort they had put into this boy didn't go to waste. Next came training in the wall kick since he possessed sufficient speed and strength to master a technique that would allow him to reach otherwise inaccessible areas, or escape from would be traps. The training became harsher as the years went on, but he kept smiling through it all. His form and his skill quickly rose and surpassed his fellow Hylians. This increase in skill slowly, but surely, brought him up to the level that the Gerudo knew he could reach all along. Now that Samanosuke was finally reflecting the potential he had he began his training to master the Gerudo Dragon. That six years has finally come to a close and Samanosuke has mastered the Gerudo Dragon, and been deemed a warrior fit to start an adventure of his own making. To learn new tricks and techniques in the outside world. To make mistakes and learn from them. To find friends and companions. To figure out what path he would take in life. To see just what it was that destiny had in store for him. A smile on his face, and a fire in his heart Samanosuke set out.
Spending his 75r plus a loan of 15r from Ban Samanosuke gains a Ring of Deuce Major Treasure, and 20br in this thread.
Samanosuke gains a Skulltula Suit, 3 kinstone pieces (Violet Clover, Violet Feather, Green Clover), and 10r from here
