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Glossary Type Thing

Quick FYI For Couple Japanese Words Kenshin Says fairly often:

Sessha - A VERY humble form refering to oneself ... roughly "This Unworthy One"

-dono - A mostly unused now honorific that is more polite than -san, but still below -sama. It's a bit like "Milord and Milady" Used to show both respect and humility.

Oro - A version of Ara ... it's an exclaimation of sorts. Depending on if has a ! or ? it can be like a "Huh?" or a "Ow!" The more repeats the more extreme. ^__^ It's kinda Kenshin's trademark.

Rurouni - A word made up by Watsuki (Kenshin's creator) ... a mix of the word Wanderer and Ronin (masterless samurai)

Weird ending things I might or might now add: I'm not allowed to use Gozaru, so I might stick the odd "that it does" or something. It's crappy way to translate it *eyes her subbed tapes* but it's the closest thing. Why not leave it off? The idea of it is to re-inforce just how odd Kenshin speaks. Even to those in the story, Kenshin talks *weird*. XD

Now and then: (Especially 2 by Saitou XD)

Hitokiri - "Manslayer" .. or assasin if you like.
Battousai - "One who has mastered Battoujutsu" See Batoujutsu below. Paired with above, Kenshin was called the "Hitokiri Battousai"
Battoujutsu - The art of drawing the katana from the saya (sheath) at great speed and striking in a single motion.
Sakabatou - "Reverse-blade Kanata" A katana with it's sharp side left blunt and it's blunt side sharpened.
Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu - The name of the fictional sword style Kenshin and Hiko use.

Likely only to be said once in a blue moon:

Bakamatsu - The japanese revolution that brought in the Meji era.
Shishou - Very respectful version of Master, which Kenshin calls Hiko specifically by.
Aoi-ya - A fictional hot-pot resturant in Kyoto where that is in fact run by the ex-Oniwabanshuu ... a group of spies (ninjas).

(Once Kenshin starts chattin' to Saitou and Soujirou, I suspect more historical references might come up (like Oniwabanshuu already accidently has lol) .. I'll toss up a bit of info here for fun, since I know a fair bit off the top of my head, as well as alla my english manga's have glossaries with info easily at my disposal if I don't. ^_^)


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Character: Himura Kenshin
Series: Rurouni Kenshin (Manga-verse .. which isn't all that different
from the anime, just lil' things)
Version: After he's learned the Ougi from his master, but before defeating Shishio (So just as he's leaving his master's hut back to Kyoto)
Age: 28 Gender: Male
Sexuality: KAORU!!!! Loves Kaoru-dono!!! (Er and Loved Tomoe too!) Er ... Hetro ^.^

Appearance:

Most people are astonished to learn Himura Kenshin is 28. He doesn't look
it at all, having an everlasting youthfulness to his features. He's a
short man, standing only a little over 5 feet, with a thin but still quite
lean, frame.

Firey orange hair falls long down his back and is pulled into a low
ponytail with a cord. It gets shorter around the front, his face framed
with an incredible amount of poofy bangs. Dark framed violet eyes peek
out through the locks, and a pair of crossing scars mar his left cheek.

He dresses in a red kimono with a white inner lining. Over the kimono he
wears a well worn, white pair of hakama. The hakama looks a little like a
pleated skirt, but is in fact pants. If the folds of Kenshin's hakama were
ever neatly pressed, they have long since smoothed out. On his feet he
wears a simple pair of tatami sandles with a pair of dark crimson tabi
(split toed) socks.

Tucked into the ties of his hakama always hangs his sakabatou.

Personality:

Kenshin sometimes is thought to have multiple personalities, but that is
not exactly the case. Depending on the situation he's in and his mindset,
he sometimes slips into different "masks". The lighthearted Rurouni - and
the cold Hitokiri Battousai .. but they are all part of him. They are part
of who he is. A man with the weight of his sins on his shoulders and
sorrow in his heart.

The Battousai, however, is one part of himself that he is learning to
overcome. Upon learning the succession technique, he learned it was his
willingness to not value his own life that allowed that part of himself to
well up inside him. Coming to realize he was did not want to die, enabled
him to learn the technique.

Many believe the Battousai was some brutal and heartless killer, but that
is not the case. He IS Kenshin. He was greatly effected by what he was
doing, but did it with the hopes of peace and the want to protect people.
While he fell deeper into darkness, he never lost that wish, and his
relationship with Tomoe helped to pull him from the darkness.

Kenshin suffers from a lot of pain. He cannot forgive himself for the
crimes he feels he committed during the revolution. Tomoe's death, which
he blames himself for, especially weighs down on his heavy heart. For ten
years he has been wandering, trying to atone for his sins by helping
people.

To hide this pain he slips into the mask of the foolish rurouni. (A word
invented by the creator as a combination of wanderer and ronin.) He comes
across clueless, accident prone, and even a little dumb. His trademark
exclamation, "Oro!" usually slipping from his lips in those times.

However, he is also very sharp (though, not in all subjects...), clever,
and has very quick reflexes. The rurouni is in part an act he puts on, to
some degree at anyrate, to try to detach himself from his darker past. As
much as the rurouni is an act, there is still part of it that is himself
as much as the hitokiri is.

He's very kind, caring and selfless to the extreme (although not according
to his master, who sees Kenshin's over-selflessness as being selfish, and
in a way he is right). He is fiercely protective, especially of those he
loves, and will defend them even at the cost of his own life. He also
often takes on too much by himself. Wishing to take on all the burden, he
tries to shut out those he cares about or anyone else who he feels should
not get involved.

He is not without a sense of humor, however, and can even be sarcastic
around certain people who annoy him. (*cough*Shishou*cough* ) He enjoys
simple things in life, like laundry.

He's also extremely polite and humble. The very way he talks shows this.
He uses the honorific "-dono" (which is a archaic honorific that is more
polite than -san) for many he knows, including Kaoru. He also attaches a
very polite form of speaking, which is also obsolete, "de gozaru (yo/ka)"
to the end of sentences. It means along the lines of "to be".

Another example is how he refers to himself - he never uses I (except when
he falls into the mindset of the Battousai) he uses "sessha" which means
roughly "this unworthy one". This says a lot about Kenshin, and what he
thinks of himself.

Abilities/Weaponry:

The Sakabatou ... a "reversed bladed" sword. A katana left blunt on the
cutting side and sharp on the inside curve. The second of two sakabatou he
has carried, this one was created around the same time as his original,
but was the stronger of the two named Sakabatou Shinuchi.

Kenshin is an extremely skilled swordsman, and specifically uses an
ancient sword style by the name of Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu. The basis of the
style is the god-like speed of the user and is said to pit one against
many. It also makes use of battoujutsu. Battoujutsu is the art of pulling
the sword from the saya (sheath) in a single, powerful strike. He was
called the Battousai because it means "one who has mastered all of
battoujutsu".

There's a very long list of moves that he is able to draw from.

Couple Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu Examples:

Ryu Tsui Sen - Leaping high above the opponent and bringing the sword down
upon their shoulder. (One of Kenshin's signature moves.)

Sou Ryu Sen - A battoujutsu that strikes first with the sword, then
follows up with the sheath. (Used to defeat Jin-e)

Kuzu Ryu Sen - First part of learning the ougi ... a charge attack that
hits all nine vital spots in one single attack.

Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki - The ougi itself ... a battoujutsu attack that
is made with the left foot stepping forward, rather than the right. The
change of step takes you a little closer to death (as it is, apparently,
more likely you might cut off your own leg) but is powered also by the
will to live. If the first strike manages to be parried, the opponent is
still drawn in by a vacuum as the user spins in place to give a second
blow even more powerful than the first.

Several other minor techniques he has include the ability to cut through
steel (as shown early in the manga, when he performs a battoujutsu to cut
a lamppost in half) and a defensive technique of being able to catch an
opponents blade with their bare hands.

He is also very athletic, able to leap heights and lengths that seem
almost inhuman.

He has no actual magical ability, but he is extremely adept with ken-ki
and has the ability to analyze any style and find it's weaknesses to
defeat or at least defend against it. He often finds ways to defeat his
opponents not necessarily from physically defeating them, but finding
their mental weakness.

Weaknesses:

Kenshin will not kill. It is a vow he made and he has attempted to keep.
To atone for his sins, and keep the Battousai part of his past, he defends
those around him, and will not mortally wound anyone. However, his will to
protect has nearly made him, several times, nearly break this vow, but it
has remained unbroken. He wishes it to stay that way.

His body is slowly starting to weaken. Hiten Mitsurugi-Ryu was intended
for much larger, stronger men than Kenshin. Upon learning the ougi, he is
starting to become aware that his body is starting to stagnate, and he
might not have much more than a few years longer to be able to perform the
style, and to attempt to push it beyond that would shorten his life.

Emotionally he carries a lot of guilt on his shoulders, for the many lives
he took during the bakumatsu. He especially feels guilt for Tomoe's death.

He strives to protect those around him, and thus he ends up in a lot of
dangerous situations that put him at risk. He is foremost of all,
protective of Kaoru, who he has growing affections for.

In Paixao he will be a bit at a disadvantage, as magic isn't something he
has ever dealt with. He is but a man with a sword. He will have to rely
heavily on his speed and observational abilities.

History:

Born with the name Shinta, his family died from cholera when he was a
child, and he was picked up by slave traders. The caravan was attacked by
bandits and the slaver traders and slaves killed before his eyes. His life
was saved when a swordsman called Hiko Sejirou the 13th put an end to the
attack.

Hiko left him there, but when the boy didn't appear at a local village, he
returned back where he found the boy had buried not only the slaves but
the slaver traders and bandits. Surprised by this, Hiko took him under his
wing to train him to be a swordsman, and gave him the name "Kenshin".

Kenshin trained for many years, till the start of the Bakumatsu (the
revolution). Going against his master, he left to help, his training
incomplete. He joined the Chosu Ishin Shishi. Amazed at the at the skill
of the 14 year old, he was selected to become their new hitokiki
(assassin). Kenshin excelled at his task, but in the process was losing
himself. Things began to change when one night he struck down a man who
had a strong will to live. Usually coming away unscathed, Kenshin has
received a scaring slash across his left cheek.

Not long later, during an attack he was surprised to find himself being
watched by a sorrowful drunk women, by the name of Tomoe. He wasn't sure
what to do with her, and ended up bringing her to the Ishin Shishi base.
She had no where to go, so became a servant at the inn, where the Ishin
Shishi had setup operations.

Then came the fire of Kyoto, which caused the Ishin Shishi to split in two
after going head to head with the Shinsengumi. Kenshin was sent with Tomoe
to a remote village to hide, and posed as a married couple. As they spent
time there, their relationship deepened. Then Tomoe's brother, Enishi
appeared. It was revealed Tomoe was in fact a spy, with the intentions to
kill Kenshin, who had killed her fiancé. The very man who had left the
scar on Kenshin's cheek. Her plans had gone array when she found she had
growing feelings for him, and he had not been what she thought he would
be.

Tomoe finds out she was actually part of a trap, and is held captive as
Kenshin comes to her rescue. Heavily wounded and his hearing and vision
impaired, he can barely fight when he reaches the leader of the group
Tomoe worked for. In a final slash at his opponent, realizes he can smell
the scent of white plums - Tomoe's perfume. Tomoe had leapt between them,
to protect Kenshin, and had been struck down by him along with his
opponent. The knife she had held, flew from her hand as she fell and
slashed Kenshin across the same left cheek, completing the cross.

With the loss of Tomoe, Kenshin mourns deeply, and vows that after the
Bakumatsu he will never kill again. He agrees to help the Ishin Shishi
bring about the revolution, stepping from the darkness, to battle at the
forefront. Then, when the era came to a close with the battle at Toba
Fushimi, he vanished, and the Hitokiri Battousai slipped into legend.

With a new sword, a sakabatou, and the wish to atone, he wandered for 10
years. Then one day in Tokyo, he was stopped by a young women with a
wooden sword, crying out "Hitokiri Battousai!"

His life then changed, as he came to live with the young women, named
Kaoru. She accepted him as no one ever had, and soon they made many
friends, living at her dojo. All did not remain peaceful, however, as
rumors of the Hitokiri Battousai's presence in Tokyo spread, but Kenshin
was able to protect his new friends, although felt very guilty as it was
because of him that he had put them in danger.

Then something much larger happened, Kenshin's replacement as Hitokiri
during the end of the revolution, a man called Makoto Shishio, has been
discovered to be plotting to throw Japan back into war. Requested to help,
and finding he cannot turn his back, Kenshin leaves Tokyo to head to Kyoto
to try to somehow defeat Shishio. Attempting to leave his friends safely
back in Tokyo, he leaves on his own after a goodbye to Kaoru, to become a
wanderer once more. However he is secretly followed by his friends,
despite his wishes for them to stay in Tokyo. Before his faces Shishio, he
decides to see his master for the first time since he left years ago, and
manages to convince him to teach him the succession technique, hoping it
will help him to defeat Shishio as the rurouni, and not the hitokiri.

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