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Keioko's Extended History |
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I wrote this rather quickly, and I didn't bother proofreading or anything, so if you spot spelling mistakes, ignore them. Otherwise, Enjoy.
As a young child, Keioko had been trained by the art of the sword, and how to control her shapeshifting and mind abilities. This was when she still knew her family, when she lived in the small village outside of Takayama City on the largest Japanese Island of Honshuu. A few months after she turned 8 years old, Keioko's village was attacked by the demon emperor of the time. Keioko fled by then into the mountains and escaped being murdered. However, the entire village of her race of demon was destroyed by other demons, and she was proclaimed the last by her own rights.
At this time, she travelled over to the capital of her country, Kyoto. There, she seeked out the ever-so-famous sensei of martial and sword-arts, as Keioko wished to further her already perfect studies in the arts. Until the human sensei died, and Keioko was approximately 80 years old, she still looked like a young girl, maybe no older than 10. Her sensei had taught her more than martial and sword arts, he'd also taught her music and visual arts, like painting and printmaking.
It was after her sensei's funeral when she vowed to destroy every single demon responsible for her race's plight. For 1940 years afterwards, she killed off-one-by-one each and every demon of that army. On the 1940th year, she succeeded in granting the demon emperor a slow, painful death for causing her so much misery.
With nothing left to do, Keioko travelled back to Kyoto where she'd lived for most of her childhood. It would now be the year 1860 and Keioko was 2110 years old. This was the time of the Meiji Revolution, where she came in contact with the ninjas of the Ishin Shishi rebellion. She joined the Choshu clan, and was soon promoted to the leader of the Choshu clan by Katsura, the leader of the Ishin Shishi. She fought for and with them as a ninja and assassin, as well as a leader and friend. She'd made friends with a human boy named Hotsuma Musashi, who was quite skilled in his arts of the ninja. He could keep up with Keioko during a spar at a steady pace.
A few years after though, Hotsuma was killed in battle at the age of 19, though the same month, Edo was renamed as Tokyo and the Shogun was overthrown by the rebellion. The Emperor was in power once more for the Country of Japan. In Hotsuma's honor, Keioko brought to his grave both his swords and his trademark red scarf he always wore around his neck, as well as the black headband he always wore. She days after she brought the items, she stayed by his grave and wept, soon being pulled away by the need to eat and drink water.
She never came back to Hotsuma's grave for over two centuries after that, when Kyoto was now a metropolis and modernized city. She took his grave markers, swords, headband and scarf and brought them home. She made an altar for him along with an altar to Buddha in her Takayama home, laying his possessions there, as well as an antique painting she did of him when they first met. She burns insense for him every day, for her only friend, her fallen friend.
During those years up until modern day, Keioko worked as a freelance assassin. She killed for money, keeping her demonic side, yet also allowing for her compassionate, human side which only Hotsuma had seen. She made her living doing that, but also did a few other things to earn extra cash to live on. She's saved up over the years, and has a proficient amount of money. One might be able to call her a millionare.
 Keioko Matsukaze · Sun Jan 08, 2006 @ 07:38am · 2 Comments |
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