Sakura Kasugano

Sakura Kasugano (Scenesys ID: 9019)
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Full Name:	Sakura Kasugano
Gender:	Female
Species:	Human
Theme:	Other (FC)
Occupation:	Student/Shotokan Badass
Citizenship:	Japanese
Residence:	Brooklyn, NYC
Education:	Millenium Brooklyn High School
Status:	Dropped
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Apparent Age:	19	Actual Age:	19
Date of Birth	15 March 2008	Actor:
Height:	157 cm (5'2")	Weight:	52 kg (115 lb)
Hair Color:	Brown	Eye Color:	Brown
Theme Song:	"Precious Heart (Sakura's Theme)" from Street Fighter Alpha 3

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A High School student that has come to live in America with her parents, Sakura lives live at 125 percent. She could be called 'manic'. She has trouble not sleeping through her classes, but also dedicates her non-school hours (And as many school ones as she can get away with) to competition. She is a student of Shotokan, a mystical martial art. She has participated in several high-profile street fighting competitions, and was winning matches at as young as 14. Now she continues to train, hoping to learn more from people skilled in other fighting styles, so she can expand her own.

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Description:

This cute Japanese girl looks like she is somewhere around eighteen or so, though mistaking her for younger would be understandable. She's only 5'2" and is likely not even 120 lbs. She has a slender, athletic body. She has brown hair and eyes, and smooth, tanned skin. Her hair is cut short but is a bit shagy, framing her pretty face. She tends to wear a white, martial-arts style headband that trails to the middle of her back, regardless of what else she is wearing.

She doesn't have a lot of curves, but is certainly pretty. She has a firm and athletic form, and she clearly works out quite a bit. She is often wearing either work-out clothes, such as gym pants and a sleeveless shirt bearing the logo of a Streetfighting tourney from a few years back in Thailand. Otherwise, she is usually wearing an altered Japanese 'sailor style' schoolgirl outfit. The skirt isn't lewdly short, and falls almost to her knees in a standard fashion. Her top is a bit shorter then normal, showing the tiniest bit of firm midriff. When preparing for a fight or working out she also wears red, weighted gloves. Her bright red athletic shoes stand out against the blue and white.

History

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History:

Sakura was born in Japan. Her father is a teacher, and her mother is a writer. Her mother has always done pretty well, with even the translated versions of her books doing well in America and other countries. She has always been a pretty good kid, but her focus on martial arts and fighting would be considered weird by most. However, her family always supported her extreme interest in it. Her parents paid for lots of lessons, and she eventually began learning Shotokan on her own...unlocking the interesting and bizarre forms of it through her own training.

Eventually, at the young age of 14, her parents signed the waivers to get her into her first street fighting tourney. She was sent around the world to fight in it. She did very well, but did not win. She has fought in a few more of these since then, always doing a bit better. Recently, her parents moved to Brooklyn so her father could pursue a new teaching position with better pay, and she is both eager to live in America, and worried about it.

Personality

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Personality:

Sakura is a good person! She will go out of her way to stick up for the underdog or protect someone she feels needs protecting. She will stand up to darkness and evil, and is genuinely heroic. She is exhuberant and youthful, looking at the world with wide, eager eyes. She is always looking to expand her fighting skills, and dreams of being the best fighter in the world, one day. When it comes to non-pop culture or fighting knowledge, however, she is often clueless.

She falls into heroic situations with ease, and is fine putting her form between evil and good, taking the hits others cannot. However, she is not good with losing, and has a long way to go in the development of who she is as a person.

Abilities

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Chi Attacks:
Thanks to Shotokan and the harnessing of her chi, Sakura is capable of several energy attacks.

Hadoken: With a few seconds of concentration, she can unleash a blast of energy. She has very good aim with this, and can generally hit moving targets up to about thirty feet away. The blasts are concussive energy, and are strong enough to knock out a normal person, generally. It can dent cars, put a sizeable chunk out of a tree, etc.

Shunkuu Hadoken: By concentrating an extra few seconds, she can unleash a larger burst. This one is generally only good up to fifteen feet away, but it can straight-up kill a normal human, or demolish a well-built vehicle. It will send powered foes flying, usually, and can even damage the very tough opponents!

Midare Zakura: By pulling that energy internally, she can deliver a devastating, blurring uppercut. She moves at absolutely inhuman speeds, and energy crackles up her arm before it lands. It has the energy of a Shunkuu Hadoken, but up close and personal.

Haru Ichiban: Much like a Midare Zakura, but she focuses the energy into an inhumanly powerful low, spin-kick. She whirls forward, taking out legs or the wheels of a motorcycle or whatever.

Enhanced Dexterity:
Through harnessing chi and hard training in her pursuit of the mastery of Shotokan, she has grown a bit beyond what a person is normally capable of. She has incredible speed, grace and reflexes. While she cannot dodge a bullet, she is able to dodge blows from many average to very skilled mundane fighters. Enhanced people, or folks skilled in styles similar to Shotokan ('Enhanced fighting') puts her on more equal footing...such as the other types of people involved in the fighting competitions she has fought in. She can backflip and cartwheel like nobody's business, and she can run at speeds equal to an Olympic sprinter, though she can keep that speed up for a bit longer. She also has amazing balance.

Enhanced Endurance:
Through the chi channeled in her intense study of Shotokan, Sakura has greatly enhanced endurance and toughness. She cannot take bullets or anything, but mundane punches and kicks can be weathered. She will eventually bruise and be knocked out, but it takes a lot of mundane damage to do a real number on her.

Enhanced Healing:
Due to the chi focused through her body with Shotokan, Sakura heals faster then a normal person. Broken bones heal in a weak instead of many, and bruises fade in an hour or so. She cannot heal severed limbs or anything like that.

Enhanced Strength:

She is not a metahuman. However, her intense study of Shotokan has allowed her to improve her body a bit beyond what a normal human is really capable of. It allows her to stand out among other incredibly skilled people, especially with her size. It is because of this harnessing of Chi that her body has been pushed to the level that lets her kick holes in car doors and punch a person through a brick wall like something out of a movie or video game. Her form is improved in a way that, while she can deliver incredible damage in a fight, she doesn't gain the same level of strength when it comes to something like lifting, or pushing or shoving mundane things OUT of a stressful fight. Outside of a fight she can still kick down a steel door with a concentrated kick, but she can't fireman carry a 400 lbs man. She has the strength of a very athletic girl outside of those specific situations.

Skills

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Athletics:
Even without her enhanced body, Sakura is a skilled athlete. She is a practiced gymnast who can cartwheel and flip to her heart's content. She is also excellent at plenty of sports, though due to growing up in Japan, she has mainly played baseball. Still, she has at least some skill in a lot of other sports...as she is fiercely competitive.

Languages:
Sakura's native language is Japanese, but she is also fluent in English. She can speak a little bit of Spanish and the various forms of Chinese, as well, to a minor extent.

Pop Culture Knowledge:
Sakura knows things! While she scrapes by in most of her school classes, she absorbs pop culture or fighting knowledge swiftly. She can quote martial arts movies or talk about ancient masters and their feuds. She knows movies and music and comic books and video games (Even if she always loses at games to her stupid little brother). She also thinks pro wrestling is real.

Shotokan:

Sakura has spent years honing her mastery of the martial art known as Shotokan. The fighting style is an assassination art, or ansatsuken, that was founded in Japan during the feudal age. The style is rooted in an evil energy known Dark Hadoi, and if a user becomes too consumed by rage or regret or another negative emotion, they can be taken over by their darker impulses for a time. (See the flaw).

There are numerous styles of the art, and Sakura focuses on a chi-heavy style, or jutsu. She is not a master of the style, and is often looking for ways to add to her repertoire. Either way, she is much more dangerous then the average fighter, even without the her chi-enhanced form.

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Fame:
People who specifically follow weird street fighting and martial arts tournaments might know of her. It is hardly mass fame. People who DO follow those sorts of things would be well aware of the girl, who downed known legends while she was only fourteen. She continues to win matches (Though rarely winning the actual tournaments) all the way up to current age.

Family:

She has a loving family. Her parents are hard-workers and not around as often as they would like, but they love Sakura and her younger brother. They support her competitive spirit, and have indulged her love of martial arts. They tend not to be too hard on her when weird stuff happens, for the most part, and even were fine with her traveling around the world for competitions. She keeps up her end by being a good daughter, and doing her chores and not totally failing out of school. It isn't that they don't care, because they do. They just trust her. Also, her brother is a brat, but she loves him (Mostly).

Weaknesses

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Competitive:
She doesn't take losing very well. She doesn't blame others or anything like that, but she can get down on herself pretty hard about it. Eventually she will grow out of this and learn that she learns even by losing, but she's still just a kid.

Dark Hadoi:
Someone practicing Shotokan has to be careful. It is fueled in part by a dark, dark energy. If Sakura becomes too consumed with rage or envy or hate, she can become corrupted into an evil version of herself. Eyes flow a hint and she becomes vicious and merciless. In addition, while fueled by this power all of her enhanced traits become a bit stronger, the girl able to beat someone with a motorcycle, or kick a truck into someone and similar. This has not happened to her yet, and fits tend to only last a few, horrible moments when it might happen in the future...unless something REALLY terrible pushes her fully into it, in which case it lasts as long as the plot needs.

Enemies:
She has more enemies then you'd think a high-schooler would normally have, really. Some of the high-profile, extreme types who tend to fight in the tournaments she does, or deal in the martial arts and such that she does, tend to hold grudges. There are some dangerous people who would love to hurt her.

Lives With Parents:

While her family is very understanding, they might begin to question when she is gone for extensive periods to run around with superheroes and doesn't have a legit explanation. They allow her weird tournaments and the like, but she still has a curfew unless she can find a good reason. Also, she doesn't have a job of her own (Yet!) and has to rely on an allowance to get by outside of things her parents buy for her. Also, nefarious types can use her family against her, of course.

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