Kenshin Himura

[Ross]

Character Basics

Franchise: Viz Media
Name: Kenshin Himura
Alias(es): Rurouni, Hitokiri Battosai
Custom Title: Oro?
Age: 28
Alignment: Good
Celebrity Claim: Kenshin

Powers and Stuff!

Powers: Kenshin hasn't really got 'powers'. He can sense 'chi' if that counts?
Abilities: He is an amazing swordsman. He's trained in the art of Hiten Mitsurugi style.
Skills: He learns quickly and seems to have a gift of binging the good out in people.
Weaknesses: Kenshin has taken a vow not to kill anyone. In some fights this can end
up being a major weakness for him.

Fun Stuff!

Personality: Kenshin desires to protect every individual from danger without harming others. Formerly known as "the strongest hitokiri," Kenshin is the main target of many old enemies and people who want to gain his title. Thus, he avoids letting others get too close to him personally for their own protection. However, he eventually begins relying on his friends, allowing them to fight alongside him.

If he is not able to protect his loved ones, he begins to shift into his "Hitokiri Battôsai" personality, and takes extreme measures in order save others, caring little for the well-being of his opponents. However, Kenshin avoids changing his personality, swearing that he will never kill. He tries to avoid the deaths of as many people as possible.

History: Not much is known about Kenshin during his childhood years. My memory is a bit hazy, but from what I remember Kenshin's parents were probably of the peasant class and most likely worked as farmers. At this time his name was Shinta. When he was young his parents lost their lives due to an epidemic that spread through the village they lived in. Afterwards, poor Shinta was picked up by a bunch of slave traders and ended up befriending three older girls named Akane, Sakura, and Kasumi. One day, the slave traders were attacked by bandits and everyone traveling with Kenshin were killed except him. He was protected by the three girls, who gave their lives to save his, and finally was saved by a swordmaster named Hiko Seijuro.

Hiko was impressed by Shinta after he saw the boy dig graves for everyone who was killed. When asked, Shinta told Hiko that everyone deserved to be buried respectfully regardless of whether they were slave traders or not. Hiko, being impressed by the kid's thought process, decided to take Shinta in and teach him the sword technique of Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu. He then proceeded to change his name to Kenshin which means "heart of sword" because he thought that Shinta was too sweet a name for a swordmaster. So Kenshin went home with Hiko and became his shishou's "baka deshi". At the age of 14 Kenshin was distressed by the suffering that resulted from the constant war and fighting. He wanted to go out and fight in the war also, but Hiko refused. Hiko told him that Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu masters always kept aloof from wordly matters because with their sword technique, the side they joined would probably come out the winner. However, being the stubborn and selfless person that he was, Kenshin refused to listen and decided to leave his master without having perfected his sword fighting technique.

After leaving Hiko Seijuro, Kenshin then met up with the right people and joined up with the Ishinshishi, working as a shadow assassin. He was so quick and could read his opponent's moves in advance, and as a result he was given the nickname "Hitokiri Battousai". He served as an assassin for a couple of years. Then Yukishiro Tomoe came into his life, seeking out the Hitokori Battousai in order to get revenge since he murdered her fiance. Things got complicated, and Tomoe and Kenshin ended up getting hitched. However, she tried to break up a fight that Kenshin was participating in and ended up getting herself killed in the process. Kenshin then went on to fight in the final battle at Toba Fushimi, and then promised never to kill again, becoming a wandering swordsman or rurouni.

Kenshin wandered all over Japan and kept a low profile for a long and lonely ten years. However, one morning in downtown Tokyo an eighteen-year old girl named Kamiya Kaoru cornered an unsuspecting short, red-haired, violet-eyed traveler carrying a sakabatou. She accused him of being the Hitokori Battousai who had been defaming her school, but then got distracted when the real killer made an appearance. Of course the killer was a fake and Kaoru was right on the money! So after a lot of fighting and a few misunderstandings related to the bath house, Kaoru offered the wandering Rurouni a home and declared that she didn't give a care about his past.

-Mikagami.net

About You!

Sample RP Post: The sun was shining brightly down from he sky as the thin rurouni paced down the dirt road. He was out shopping for Kaoru-Dono and he'd gotten himself lost in all of the ally-ways of the street. His red hair was tied back in a long pony-tail with fluffy bangs. He wore a purple kimono top with white pants.

He looked pretty normal, other than the x-shaped scar over his cheek and his sword hanging from his hip. The kind look on the former assassin's face didn't show you at all what his past was like. He kept this well hidden as he pushed his way carefully through the crowd to buy the food for Kaoru-Dono before she flipped her lid, so to speak.

Anything We Should Know: Name's Fol. Miss. Fol.

[Hikari "Kari" Kamiya & Gatomon]

DEFINITELY accepted!

[Ross]

lmao, thanks

[Edward Elric]

*Drools* Congrats, BTW.

[Ross]

Haha, thanks XD Mah first canon.