Aoyama, Motoko

[MizuJakkaru]

Name: Motoko Aoyama
Nickname: N/A
Age: 24 (December 1st)
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Ecruteak City, Johto
Family: Tsuruko Aoyama (Older Sister), Setsuna Sakurazaki (Adoptive Younger Sister), Kazue Aoyama (Ancient Ancestor)

Trainer Orientation: Lawful Good
Trainer Class: Swordswoman
Starter Pokémon: Necturine

Character Theme:
CarrotWine ~ The Gensokyo the Gods Loved (Touhou: Mountain of Faith)

Versus Theme:
OdiakeS ~ Suwa Foughten Field & Native Faith (Touhou: Mountain of Faith)

Hana [Female Necturna] — The flower that blooms in the face of adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
Befriended during one of her voyages into the mountains north of the dojo for training, Hana is Motoko's oldest Pokémon. Hana is quiet and respectful, especially to nature, and has often been likened to the geisha of the past in her personality. She is quite becoming to new people and Pokémon she meets. Conversely, in battle, she is as sure as herself as any, striking out against her foes with all the determination of the chill in winter.
—Befriended in the forests north of Johto.

Ability: Telepathy
Nature: Quiet
Move Pool: Giga Drain, Horn Leech, Nightmare, Pain Split, Shadow Claw, Shadow Sneak, Sketch, Stone Edge, Toxic Spikes, Will-O-Wisp

Qinglong [Female Xuilyn] — After the rain, the earth hardens.
The most recent addition to Motoko's team, Qinglong is a welcome party member. She is loyal and steadfast to Motoko and acts much like a mothering entity to the girl. Motoko has yet to fully try Qinglong's ability in a fight, but she knows that the dragon holds much to be appreciated about her, given dragons are known for being worthy adversaries in the first place.
—Captured on a pilgrimage to China.

Ability: Levitate
Nature: Gentle
Move Pool: Agility, Dragon Dance, Dragon Pulse, Fire Blast, Flame Burst, Flamethrower, Fly, Sky Attack, Slash, Sunny Day

Kitsu [Female Cerevine] — Fall seven times and stand up eight.
A gift from a long time friend of hers, Motoko treats Kitsu as a she did her friend Kitsune. Which is to say they have a kind of on and off bickering contest between one another, but deep down they appreciated the other and see the other person as a valuable friend and ally. Kitsu is quite good at battle, taking her foes out swiftly and with practiced ease.
—Received in Ecruteak City from Mitsune Konno.

Ability: Steadfast
Nature: Sassy
Move Pool: False Swipe, Feint, Flash, Helping Hand, Hypnosis, Light Screen, Psybeam, Psychic, Psycho Cut, Reflect

Standing five feet and ten inches tall, Motoko is rather tall and lean. She bears black hair that appears to be a trait of her family, and her eyes are an olive color. She is well built due to her training and has no other physical markings of any kind, piercing, tattoo or otherwise.

Her appearance and clothing resembles that of traditional Japan or Ransei, often only seen wearing either her school uniform, sports uniform or her training hakama. Her hair, too, is usually just worn straight in a traditional cut (known as hime style), only sometimes pulling it back into a ponytail during training.

Artwork by Ken Akamatsu (front and back).
Trainer Sprite by unknown. VS Sprite by unknown.

Principled, ethical and tolerant, she was brought up to follow traditional Japanese morals of the warrior class; meaning to follow obligation, politeness and duty. As a result she is somewhat naive to the "ways of the world" and is sometimes confused and irritated by the mannerisms and attitudes of other girls her age.

Although her sheltered upbringing is ingrained, she remains open to new experiences and willfully participates in "modern" things like Karaoke and attending theme-parks. That being said she has yet to own a mobile phone. Usually seen practicing and/or honing her martial techniques she is, due to her serious nature, often seen as the moral or principled backbone of whatever group she partakes in.

Motoko was born December 1, at the Shinmeiryu dojo in Ecruteak City, Johto. As a potential heiress to the swordsmanship school, she was trained as a practitioner from the time she was able to hold a wooden sword. Beginning in her early childhood, and throughout her life, Motoko would idolize her older sister, Tsuruko, viewing her as the personification of the life she should lead, much to Tsuruko's consternation, who always wanted Motoko to live her own life for her own happiness. At the age of five, she was introduced to Seno Nakakami. The two became inseparable, and, when not training, often ran amok pulling pranks and doing as children are wont to do.

Several years later, a young girl named Setsuna Sakurazaki was brought to the dojo by Eishun Konoe, another Shinmeiryu practitioner and formerly of the Aoyama clan. In order to ward off harassment and intolerance from the other practitioners, the Aoyama family officially adopted Setsuna. Ironically, Setsuna would almost immediately adopt the same sort of idolization for Motoko that Motoko did for Tsuruko.

Motoko grew quite fond of Seno as time would pass and as they both would advance through their training of Shinmeiryu. As such, the two started out much later on their typical Pokémon journey than other children, leaving the dojo around the age of fifteen. They chose not to focus on collecting badges but instead on furthering themselves and their Pokémon.

Two years later, they returned to Ecruteak City so that she could deal with the state of affairs of her older sister stepping down as the headmaster and naming her as heir. Considering herself ill-prepared for the task, she fled to the Hoenn region, asking only that she be given time to prepare herself and further her training. She also specifically asked that Seno not come after her. Reluctantly, the swordsman agreed to her request, and swore that he would honor the promise they had made on their aborted journey to become Pokémon Masters together, and would thus not challenge a single Gym Leader until she returned to complete their journey.

In Hoenn, Motoko spent two years training and honing her skill... and as of late, she has just landed in the ports of Olivine to travel north and return home to her family and her friends at the Shinmeiryu school.

Martial Abilities______________________________________
└─Weapon specializations and fighting styles.

Shinmeiryu: Motoko is training in the Shinmeiryu style of swordsmanship. Originally created as a combat force with unparalleled power to protect Ecruteak, in modern times the Shinmeiryu often act as expert dark-fiend slayers and exorcists, working as the protectors of everything good and the slayers of anything relative to the Darkness. The swordswomen of Shinmeiryu are adept at using their ki energy in combat and also act as aides or hired mercenaries. Techniques are divided into three categories, ougi, which are ultimate techniques, hiken, which are hidden techniques, and kessen ougi, which are ultimate secret decisive battle techniques.

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├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Fighting Style
└─Power Level: Master

Hyakka Ryouran: [百花繚乱, lit. "Many Flowers Blooming in Profusion"] Hiken, half of the damage dealt by this attack is considered slashing, the other half wind. This skill affects an area in front of the user ten feet wide and thirty feet deep. Anything caught in the area of effect of this attack is likely to be knocked down, and any Flying-type Pokémon or Pokémon with Levitate will lose their immunity to Ground-type attacks.

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├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Attack
└─Power Level: Expert

Hyakuretsuoukazan: [百烈桜華斬, lit. "Hundred-Strike Cherry Blossom Slash"] Ougi, draws a circle with the sword and cuts multiple enemies at once.

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├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Attack
└─Power Level: Apprentice

Jakuzankusen: [弱斬空閃, lit. "Lesser Air-Cutting Flash"] Hiken, similar to Zankusen, the user expels a large blast of ki. The difference is that this attack is primarily defensive, the ki is not charged with energy to damage, only push away. Any damage this attack might do would be based on how the enemy falls when they are pushed away.

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├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Attack
└─Power Level: Journeyman

Raimeiken: [雷鳴剣, lit. "Thunderclap Sword"] Ougi, a slashing attack with lightning energy infused onto the sword. Can cause paralysis to the person or being struck.

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├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Attack
└─Power Level: Expert

Ryuhazan: [竜破斬, lit. "Dragon-Breaking Slash"] Unknown level, a species-specific strike that deals absurd damage to Dragon-type Pokémon and Pokémon in the dragon egg group, but is only a normal sword strike against any other targets.

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├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Attack
└─Power Level: Expert

Shin Raikoken: (真・雷光剣, lit. "True Lightning Sword"), Kessen ougi, infuses lightning energy into the sword and causes an explosion that destroys an area. One of the most powerful Shinmeiryu attacks.

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├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Attack
└─Power Level: Apprentice

Zanganken: [斬岩剣, lit. "Stone-Cleaving Sword"] Ougi, the first technique mastered by any student of Shinmeiryu, it is this technique that lends the school its reputation for cleaving mountains asunder. Strikes against any object made of rock instantly shatter the target of this technique, and any Rock-type Pokémon will immediately faint.

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├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Attack
└─Power Level: Master

Zankusen: [斬空閃, lit. "Air-Cutting Flash"] Hiken, the first of the flash techniques, Zankusen functions both used by a sword and used bare-handed. This technique releases a burst of ki in a ten square-foot radius around the user. Creatures of an alignment diametrically opposite that of the user take double damage.

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├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Attack
└─Power Level: Expert

Zankusho San [斬空掌・散, lit. "Air-Cutting Palm, Scatter"] Ougi, Similar in execution to Zankusen, Zankusho San is a ki-release technique that fires a number of bullet-like ki projectiles at a number of targets within ten feet of the user.

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├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Attack
└─Power Level: Journeyman

Zanmaken: [斬魔剣, lit. "Evil-Cutting Sword"] Ougi, another initial technique, Zanmaken is a ranged ki attack that deals absurdly effective against anything with an evil alignment. Non-evil creatures and persons also receive considerable damage if struck, but evil creatures will almost certainly be slain.

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├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Attack
└─Power Level: Master

Zanmaken Ni-no-Tachi: [斬魔剣 弐の太刀, lit. "Evil-Cutting Sword, Second Strike"] Ougi, this technique can only be used on a target that has an animate target between itself and the wielder. (I.e., if the target is standing behind a person, an undead, or a construct. This does not function on a target standing behind, say, a wall.) The user targets the object in the target's path. A visible wave of ki energy passes through the intervening object and strikes the target, dealing double damage. However, this technique only affects creatures or objects with an evil alignment, and its use will be wasted, dealing no damage, on anything.

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├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Attack
└─Power Level: Expert

Zantetsusen: [斬鉄閃, lit. "Iron-Cutting Flash"] Ougi, this technique releases ki in a spiral fashion toward a single target, striking the victim three distinct times. It is absurdly-effective against Steel-types, and not much nicer to anything not protected by armor.

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├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Attack
└─Power Level: Expert

Swordsmanship (Katana): Quite skilled with the blade she wields, Motoko uses the traditional styles of fighting taught to the Aoyoma clan for many ages. She is proficient enough in this weapon to hold her own against the onslaught of others and multiples. As per normal for practitioners of the Shinmeiryu style, she is adept at fending off things that are inherently "evil" or have connection to the greater Darkness.

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├─Classification: Physical
├─Category: Weapon Proficiency
└─Power Level: Expert

Coming soon.