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Contents 1 Intro 2 Ami Kintaro's backstory - Thumbnail Edition 3 The Segue 4 The Kintaro Story 5 The Kintaro Story : The Children 6 The Kintaro Story : The Update

Intro

The Kintaros' have a rich history. There's two in fact. However they aren't so much separate as refined for their specific locales and genres. One builds off of the complexity of the other which lends changes back to the original. The Backstory Mobius Strip.

These stories started out as a character backstory for Ami Kintaro.

Ami Kintaro's backstory - Thumbnail Edition

Ami's past was a dark one where her parents were mercenary incestuous opportunists, who in a culmination of years of mistreatment she'd persevered sold her to a dark evil. She just never made it to her destination. This lead to Bad Things happening to her parents necessitating their release. The parents were also survived by One Brother, and no other family members worth mentioning. A Thumbnail of a greater background when you really gawk at it, but 'it would do for the time being'.

The Segue

Then came the game City of Heroes, and a need for a character background sprung forth. Of course I was not going to watch ManAss wander the country side so for the time no form of Eldrick Tobin existed. So Ami became the logical choice... and now such a thumbnail background didn't seem to FIT. Afterall CoH, was not some 1950's era golden age thing where you could toss together a SuperVillain who intended to ride SuperMan like a bucking broncho, and have next to zero backstory save that he just did this kind of thing (Maybe list ONE Pegasus he rode... IF THAT).

And so the following bore forth (over several Iterations, BEWARE OF RAMBLE)

The Kintaro Story

Not long enough ago, sadly too close to anything pleasant, a man was born who would twist and corrupt anything he touched. A powerful man who some might call a villain. Others would call him worse.

You'd think such a person could never find anything approximating even the antithesis of love. But such people have an aura about them. An intimidating aura to be sure... but it is enough to sway the hearts of men.

And women.

One such woman was unknown to herself part of a strong bloodline and without the sense of -something- to do anything with it. At parties she was passed around like one might share an ashtray. She loved the attention. She seemed to find no fault in anything done for or to her. One man even killed for her.

He was her would be burglar. Remember that man I was just talking about? Guess who killed for her.

You'll never guess who however. Or why. But I'll tell you.

Her father. Why? First person she thought of. Here's how it went down in a nutshell.

Perp breaks into upstairs balcony door. It's her room. She being who she is doesn't think anything of it. He sees her as he's picking out the best bits in a mirror watching him fascinated. He can tell she's potent... but untapped just from her body language. Now some might make inquiries as to why. He was too confident for such. He remarked she was smart to keep back. She liked the compliment. How wise she was to let him pick whatever he wanted. She told him he could have all of it. It meant nothing to her. He was enamored after a fashion... or maybe just moved by greed. He offered to do something for her - more a bribe than anything nice of course. She inquired as to what kinds of things. The question of anyone she wanted murdered came up. Anyone at all - it would go over well later to say he'd been able to bribe her with a heart's desire like that.

She said something to the effect of she didn't know anyone who might need to die save maybe her father. He didn't ask the confirmation just right for someone who's a bit of a doormat, so she just confirmed who she said. Not of course that she only blurted out the first thing that came to mind.

So he slipped out and did it. Murder was what he'd started out doing so it was easy to regress on the food chain a bit. Spiders could have taken lessons on how to stalk from him. He didn't leave a footprint fingerprint or probably even dust.

Then, the venerable trading company chief was dead as a post. Looked like he'd slipped on the rug in front of the fireplace... and so unconscious his brain couldn't wake him... assuming the fall didn't kill him... he burned. It was like art. He'd missed such secretly... but relished ordering others to do this MORE. Everyone dancing to his whim. Like a choreographer, in the dance of death, he'd be the best.

Figuring her gravy train was derailed, and the fact she looked like a good lay for a while he invited her to leave with him. In less kind words... as a matter of fact it was an order.

He still didn't know she was a human doormat. Ultra conformable with any request. She'd have killed herself if he'd asked. If anyone asked.

She found following his stealthy movements from the premise easy almost childlike in the simple elegance. She watched him move and imagined him beneath her, beside her, behind her, and what he might ask of her. She really was eager about that. Like an automaton with a craving for obedience above and beyond any potential programming anything could instill.

And yet they were both just mortals on the wheel of life.

However they traveled the underworld like shooting stars. Some would doubt they were even mortal after a time. And with his loud intimidation and her quiet force of personality... like the gaze of a predator... none would challenge them for long. If something confronted her she'd just lead it to him. Devotion to him had curbed her into HIS doormat, and he did a lot in his power to maintain that. Like a wild animal she wasn't really domesticated, and could turn whenever.

And he made a lot of enemies... many of whom when lead back to her were so worried she was his enforcer... or boss that they would sooner swear loyalty or leap to their death than stay in what must have been a trap. They thus fed on each other's power. Drunk on this shared destiny for greatness they nearly met their end.

The details of this near miss are lost to legend. Heroes... rivals... none are sure. It was enough however that their fiery light snuffed out of the public eye like a lamp being shut off in the darkest room possible.

For a time they went by her name... but that didn't work out for the best. Her sisters nearly found them. Neither would have survived. Ichigo (Ms. Doormat - A Brute) was not to be trusted any longer. Toulane (Mr. Doormat Possessor - Stalker (Mastermind Delusions))... well he was like a root of evil. A Dark Beacon calling out with it's fell light from the depths.

So with some serious record purchasing they fell off the map again for a while. Well, if you were in the right circles you'd never think that one bit. They were just finally getting smart about who knew what. Publicly, he had spurned her and she killed him being too devoted to ever be forced to leave. In her anguish she took her own life.

They even had empty burial plots. They had money in the right places such that eventually they'd even be in those plots. Not any time soon though.

The Kintaro Story : The Children

During all this shenanigans they bore forth several children.

Their first. A boy they left in the cradle crying to make people think they were still about as the place got raided. An explosion stopped the crying. Toulane didn't shed a tear. She only asked if he wanted another. To her it had displeased him so of course kaboom. He simply had no love of rugrats. Childmaking however was kinda fun.

That was their last boy. He mused aloud before the childmaking that boys always grow up and take their father's crowns far too early. He'd done the same to his father after graduation and mob persuasion. Her body seemed to consent to her whim that she bear a girl. Thus when it was 'go time' she bore forth a girl.

He considered the power a woman possessed, and figured this was a great move. He'd raise her to be like her mother... and of course there'd be other sisters... and like kings of old he'd set them up like commodities. Maybe even just pimp some out like he had his own wife a few times. If they were like her it would be a snap.

Thus he was really creepy to his first daughter. He didn't DO anything just that look of "You will make daddy so much raw blingbling." unnerved her. Mother's mutant genes had made her a bit more sharp far earlier. To prove to her how valuable she was to them she ran away at 4 years of age. She figured she might get a spanking for it tops. She only ran to a neighbor with some money anyway.

They never even bothered. He figured she took after him and recalled those knowing eyes. She didn't have a thought save that another child would be needed.

So they actually went 'on vacation' -into hiding- lest the girl rat'em out.

Neighbors handed her around waiting for them to come back from vacation. Eventually an assassin who was looking to end her parents became the next neighbor with the girl. He took to her instantly and raised her himself. Of course she took up this new family trade of spy and assassin -only not the kind you'd figure. He was a professional villain remover. No fancy costume just a well made gun. This worked for little Nagisa (Gun Blaster) nicely.

MEANWHILE The second daughter wasn't far behind Nagisa's exodus. Premature even. She was underweight, and while there was worry for her survival she seemed stalwart. However the couple the next bed over weren't so lucky. There's was a complicated delivery and though they could have bought the moon on petty cash the doctors could only saved the wife. Grief stricken they started offering favors to people who might part with their fresh offspring. The wife could never bear again. No one bit save Ichigo who walking far sooner than any fresh mother possible dragged her husband over and suggested the trade.

He was far more savvy than the ritzies could have fathomed, but it didn't matter. They had to have a child, on a psychological level, that would have gotten them institutionalized, had a doctor noticed. The child was put up for adoption - aren't underworld connections wonderful? - and the only applicant -coughcough- was these child starved people. Ch-ching.

Little Suzako (Tanker) - or Susie, as her new parents called her, got spoiled rotten. And yet she never really became more than too self assured, arrogant and egotistical. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few... but the point is she didn't get too bad for all the spoilage. However she was also this natural doormat like her mother. She just had a bit more spine about it. Never with her parents... she never had a spine in front of them. But then she could have eviscerated the house staff and they'd have just cleaned her up and gotten new staff. No way would they lose her.

OF COURSE The next Kintaro daughter, yes they couldn't seem to stop, was almost optioned at birth as well. The underworld had heard of this... 'special' baby service, and were eager. They knew what the family was capable of... so many figured an alliance like this might give them some edge over Toulane and his wife. Friends close, etc etc.

Even with all the offers they thought of keeping this one anyway. Time wore on a bit after the delivery, and just in case Ichigo got another bun slammed into her oven. Toulane wanted to hedge his bets. The current tike, Buuma, seemed to always be looking at mommy's stomach. Presumably miming the contents. It was unnerving - to Toulane especially.

The child -only 14 months old- was tested for anything abnormal. She was an Empath. And a potent one. Why she could even heal the bugs splattered onto the grill of their car as they sped around. Once she could speak she'd blurt out what daddy was thinking. She couldn't stop. She didn't even know she was doing it. Toulane of course was furious.

That pressure to be made breeders flared up when the news of her abilities leaked somehow. An underworld leader demanded such a child. Toulane counter demanded that he hand over his organization to him. The dealing raged. Toulane didn't want such a brat anyway. But the other guy was incensed. He was seeing not an annoyance but a gold mine. At 2/3 control the bargain was reached. Apparently 1/3 for each Kintaro Clan head... thus 2/3 was all for Toulane considering Ichigo's personality. And Buuma was out the door seemingly for good.

Buuma helped her new father rig lotto numbers - threats to expose the deep desires of the commissioners lead to rigged ball tumblers with only the right numbers in them - and find rats in the organization. He had a talent for asking her to do these things that Toulane and Ichigo would have never been able to handle. Dear Old (Previous) Dad just naturally found Psychic Powers unnerving from his days training at the Dojo. And Mom wouldn't have cared. She made people think the way she wanted with violent threats.

Anywho, one day out of the blue Buuma made her father take her to her real mom... mere minutes before there was some kind of internal problem in her womb. She thrashed and near tore herself open to get at the problem, before Buuma went 'into the lion's den' and them mommy was okay. Bruises on her healed, and whatever near premature birth situation vanished. Dad was finally slightly happy with her but worried every little thing in his head was about to be broadcast sent them on their way with a smile.

However - isn't there always a catch? - on the way home, Buuma and father got assaulted. Things looked ugly. Organization men came to their aid but... a solid tank round to the head doesn't leave something that can be healed. Buuma began crying nigh uncontrollably. The men took her to the new Full leaders, and Toulane not wanting the child back - she couldn't be consoled for one and wouldn't stop her deafening wailing - had the men take her to the dead man's house. Toulane ordered both locations be made clue immaculate in his next breath.

The dead man's staff took care of the wailing tike until the cops did show. The place was strip searched, and nothing was found but scared staff out of a job, and a small terrified -but now not crying- Buuma. CPS never really got called. The will gave the house to a distant cousin with the stipulation it was to be an orphanage. There was even money to sustain it for a decade. The cousin ran such apparently and moved the flock over to this mansion.

Too bad you can't bribe your way into heaven eh?

Buuma helped the cousin to bring out the best in all the children, and healed all their booboos. The house was like an evil caterpillar that had cocooned and emerged into a radiant butterfly. It's evil cast off with the shell.

Of course while you can't bribe your way into heaven you can piss off tormentors in hell. Buuma was forever tortured by visions that that's what was happening to him. It was why she couldn't stop crying previously. While there were strenuous investigations done, she never seemed to find out anything truly evil the man had done. Just nebulous deeds, and advice that seemed to always put him in the right place. Even the found out rats and moles were actually bad men with their own darker agendas. Even the lottery rig she found out was far from the first time that the commisioners had been bribed. She reported the mess in the end... but with how much was squirreled away by evil... the amount won by her father the one WELL DOCUMENTED TIME was practically the reward on their heads... so it was written off. Besides... steal money -that was stolen granted- from orphans? Sounds like a way to bribe yourself into hell.

And you can do that.

Speaking of bribing your way into hell... the Kintaros. They were not long after Buuma left their lives giving birth to what they considered the pinnacle of all their efforts. Little Ami was a Mutant from day one. They weren't alarmed because you could now test for it thoroughly and a second test was made on the mother that revealed to Toulane that Mutation was the 'quiet' ferocity his wife possessed. What powers would be hard to tell with the current testing regimen without real live fire testing -which he'd never condone. He was smart enough to fear her after all... even as he banged her like a drum in 'amateur' porn which they had been dabbling in for some time. Criminal masterminds are often in every industry after all. Maybe even the milk you've drank right from the container.

Mutant from day one. She had the makings of a tail. Cat ears... and in time a very very very light tiger pattern in her body hair that you couldn't tell save with the right examination. That she liked to cuddle with naked people seemed like a plus. In truth she was just affectionate with her parents. Toulane worked to try to make that everyone. Yeah deviant bastard eh? But then he had become the biggest unknown name in 'amateur' porn of ALL kinds. Ichigo could fake death so well a coroner might start an autopsy. Pulse and all here. Only a brain wave scan could tell for sure. So a stretch it is not to have his daughter in the arms of all kinds of people - mostly extras and also-rans from his porn franchise... who just doted on her.

HOWEVER - it's back - Ami had Nagisa's sharp mind and knew that something was going on. She found out that other children had been sired... but she was the only one here. That scared her. She decided to be the perfect child. Like mom but smaller... and only an act. She'd seen mom heal dramatic bloody wounds. She didn't want those. So she'd do nothing more than warrant a spanking. Ever.

She never really had to do anything untoward... truth was Toulane worried she had her mother's ferocity. Only not the quiet kind. He'd noticed that she was thinking about what she'd obey. But that's normal for kids. She was somewhere in the middle of both of them. Made her a great asset if the near scifi of cloning came about. After all why sell a guy a girl in a costume with ears... when you could sell him a girl with natural ears? And yes he was in even those industries.

It's where he got his film casts.

Thus Ami had plenty of example of what not to do, and she made friends with those misfortunates who ended up 'employed' and working to get them transferred out of the organization and maybe into real porn studios that they could actually quit from. Not the most heroic way but... like father mother scared her. Wild Kingdom said sometimes mothers eat their young. And while she was no longer 'young' she was 'younger' than her mother and that might count just fine. Especially considering that one snuff cannibal horror she'd seen filmed from the shadows. Not one of her friends being the only saving grace of watching her parents eat someone in one frame... sacrifice them like a Circle of Thorns group in another in the series... and worse... let's just not go there hmm?

When Ami was about 5 (so turn back the clock a bit here... don't worry last one ^-^ and then at the End back to Ami ^-^v) Toulane and Ichigo gave birth to a normal seemingly non-mutant child. She didn't get more than a name. They had Ami. They didn't need Hikaru. She got sent to that orphanage. She didn't stay too long. Sadly Buuma and Hikaru never noticed a relation and Buuma seemed locked out of her head -thus Buumacouldn't have found out that way. Shame. So they talked a lot but that's it. Buuma had HAD family however, and that was a big wedge between them. Hikaru was a orphanage doorstop 'gift' so far as she knew. Buuma was this practical Millionairess by comparison.

At 6 Hikaru was getting fed up. Nagisa's wanderlust perhaps. Either way. She wanted out. She wanted a family, and no one would take her. At 8 she broke out and wasn't seen there again. She fell in with a gang. She was a good fighter after learning, and thus a great asset.

One day (however), she punched a guy to impress her beau and some kind of claw burst out of her hand and that dude died rather than get simply pounded. The beau seemed cool with it, and they worked on harnessing her claws. She mostly wanted into his clothes with him which unknown to her that train had left the station when those claws came out.

Eventually there came a situation where the leadership came into question... when you have Hellions and Skulls sniffing around your turf and you DON'T send people to teach them to back off... John Boy blurted out that she could probably take anyone who wanted to challenge the leader in a fit of what seemed like loyalty. It wasn't. Leader guessed his hinting and had Hikaru take him down. She of course hesitated - almost too bad she did. He could have had an easy quick death had she not hesitated.

The Leader smiled and told her John Boy was afraid of her powers. Thus he was basically weekly lying to her. Others revealed that he was only close to her to use her to get to power. They reminded her of the rumors of her real family. Rumors said the same was in operation. Perhaps he even wanted to pimp her out rather than touch her himself. One look into his eyes was all it took to see the truth of it. She flew into a rage and he was no more. He became thus the first boyfriend she'd ever had and the guy who ratted her out as a mutie at the same time.

Wait you say... ratted her out? Well she didn't know the Leader already knew. But the whole gang knew now. She wasn't much welcome at that point. Superdyne was the way to go. You knew what that could do. Mutation... that's Hero crap. At least they said... after all with such powers she could make leader. Better to drum her out.

And so... poor thing lost the 'family' she had... and wandered the streets for a time. One day she got a phone call. There was no way anyone would call INTO King's Row at a phone booth no one ever used - well she got the time sometimes but that's it. Turns out a one Antonio Nash was on the other end and he had heard of her abilities... and having spoken with one of her sisters found her highly recommended. She was off to Atlas Plaza. What else did she have to do?

NOW you'd think everything might well end there. But well... Ichigo likes raising young ones. Okay she likes having babies. Only this one she was going to keep. No matter what. Toulane heard the news kinda dreadfully - he was primarily concerned that there was almost no way to know what the next one could do. He put his bets on one they could both mold into something grand and terrible.

They got little Sachiko. Apparently she was a lot they could wish for right 'out of the box'. Sachiko's instructions from said box were pretty simple: 1) Do not hit her. 2) Refer to instruction 1. The doctor who delivered even special children had no idea to expect a potent attack from one so young. Of course fears of his own mortality delivering one of Their children -and basically knowing of it at all- and the stresses of bribery, and blatant lying took him out almost more than the claw marks he thought had appeared on his face.

But little Sachiko was good at making those. Mommy would nurture it, Daddy would nurture it, but they really spent little time nurturing her. So thus she grew up pretty wild. Near complete lack of civilizing. Took to bathing like it was acid. Haircuts like it was a fiery brand. But when she was really happy the mental claws -and worse- subsided and there was always a gentle breeze in the building. One could surmise she liked breezes on her skin and through her hair. Everyone hoped that was it. Made her extra useful on the set. With how young and cute and radiantly confident and whatnot she was, it's sadly not too surprising that with the kind of actor's daddy 'hired' one actor thought to jump schedule on SaSa's development and got thrown into a wall. Those Toulane paid to be on set were always bad seeds in comparison to those bought to be on camera.

There was a great hush about the whole situation. But you can't hush anything in the underworld for long. Mommy having added a few years to the developmental plan gave more time for such illicit information to leak out. Leak out to Ichigo's Sisters specifically.

Thus when there was a lightning raid of the compound by the afformentioned Sisters, young Sachiko had only committed a few cardinal sins. Drugs (a little untequila'd marguerita mix [what? it counts to a kid]), rock and roll, the aforementioned violence, but not yet had she taken a mate (truth be told she was waiting until she spoke better before doing anything like that... most guys aren't turned on by purring and licking... again most guys). Though I wager 'taken' might be a little light a word if he didn't want a jailbait girlfriend. Bludgeoned and dragged into a room and pronounced married by the highly Psychically Active Little Lady being possibly the more appropriate wording.

In any event the Aunts raised her for a time. Not a long time. They seemed to have a knack at catching her up to speed. Forks made sense being taught from them. Language effortless, and how to take no for an answer - and when to take it. They weren't sure if she'd still have her mother's libido, but then who were they to talk?

One day Sachiko (they found out joyfully she hated being called SaSa), announced she was going to get a man. They pronounced her too young. She then announced she'd take out her passions on criminals. They were dubious. She reminded them in a little show -not of force- that she knew how to fight and could hurt perps with her mind. They considered. She announced that if she can stop criminals like her aunties she'd wait till she was a whoooooole 16 before landing a mate. They called Mister Nash right away to arrange to keep her busy long after her 18th birthday if he could swing it.

Now I can say the rest is history... as for the Aunts... that's a mystery ^.~

But Wait... why wasn't darling Ami there for the raid? Well she wasn't even there when Sachiko was born. And it wasn't even her fault really. But she'd just kinda faded into the background when one of the people she was with on camera took violently ill -the burns didn't help either. He'd been 'poisoned'. Toulane figured it was on purpose -not this guy... Ami liked him... but what did Daddy know? Daddykins had paid a lot for the guy - a regenerator just good enough to be in male snuff but not good enough Mommy-san couldn't splatter him and make him stay that way. And then Ami's spines came out more and more from then. Like they were hardwired into her id and DID NOT WANT her current life. Toulane also got sick of the evasion and the should-I-debate-obeying-this look and kinda left her on the set rather than take her home with increasing regularity. It was like a city of darkness... however not too dark. Sure the Hired were still bastards... but they kept their distance from her and anyone she was actually friendly with. And the bought were afforded a bit of freedom and even some respect. Well when not on camera. It was a 24/7 shop after all.

And so on a grocery run with some of the cast... they spotted Back Alley Brawler doing his heroing... and with an agreement between the enslaved and the enslaving... one of the enslaved picked up some rocks to throw at a nearby police drone (they'd all be safe in the Zig for a time from Toulane). They threw fast and well... and soon Ami was all alone. The Brawler having seen the light show slipped over to investigate and found a little girl who had one heck of a story to tell once he convinced her he was a hero by doing what he likes to do... bust up gangers and drug dealers.

She even led him to the studio - no one there... not a sign it was even more than just a clean boring Art Film House- and then home -again the same lack of evidence... however the 'new' owner was a petty drug lord so... he didn't get to own it long.

Where were Toulane and Ichigo and their entire life and production menance? They'd taken an invitation to the Rogue Isles... an invitation laced with reassurances like 'We'll have Illusons of you all over the place so you can just stroll out here when you're ready.' and 'We love your work in Arachnos'. So they slowly High Tailed it closer and closer over the years to Mercy Island.

Save for the snag where their flop mansion-studio got raided -and they lost Sachiko- it was all green and gravy train if a slow long process.

And during this time Ami stayed at the Orphanage and studied with Back Alley Brawler ... and really any hero who'd stop and chat. Buuma's Empathy and Healing had become pretty well known. Right off the bat two reasons to go to the 'nage.

The Kintaro Story : The Update

It's been A While Now since the Events above. INTRODUMP!

Ichigo's Sisters -being good at falling off the Map- are impossible to track down so little is known as to who or what they're doing... or even ARE.

Ichigo and Toulane are in the Rogue Isles trying to build up a powerbase in a land littered with powerbases... but loving the challenge of it all. Of course they know of every single one of their children now and Ichigo's got this desire for the whole family together again. Heroism to her just being a phase they'll give up.

Nagisa is a Spy Assassin with a large gun and a nice big ole fake Tourist Disguise that would make directors drool if they knew it was all an act. She likes watching criminals... maybe to see if they'll lead her to her Father...

Suzako is a Swimsuit Model Heroine always wearing her latest jobs around as she does okay at the heroing thanks to meeting a guy once who helped her out of her doormatness. Well she's still likely to go down on a guy who just jokingly says 'Blow me.' But who minds that from a Super Strength Invulnerability Tanker? Well the people who have trouble having oral sex from a Super Strength Invulnerability Tanker I guess. Like people made of flesh.

Buuma basically runs the Orphanage these days but with the fact that it's also branched into being a small time school for the Super... she's had to undo a few kidnapping plots in her time. And of course there are the students who decide evil is cool...

Ami has been busting Hellion and Skull heads for a while all over Paragon under the gaze of Back Street Brawler (And Nagisa). Too bad her Martial Arts teacher who Brawler had passed her off to was butchered on a trip to the Rogue Isles after an anonymous tip. But those are the breaks ... too bad he never even came close to finishing his mission or her training. But hey... how many people can wear Batman gauntlets and work it? Batman gauntlets with little acidic spines in them... not to mention the rest of the spines... but those should be suppressed for the public good. Bad enough they WANT to burst forth and fly out all over the place. Heck the look is so nice that The Aunts have made it the family's standard issue attire. Poor Buuma... she feels so naked.

Hikaru has been hauling Outcasts in by the ton trying to find the source for their gang. She hasn't realized it's the Warriors yet... but they've been watching her for forever and like what they see. Too bad she's on the wrong side of the law. At least Nagisa is also keeping an eye on her -got her the phone call with Nash afterall. If not The Warriors would be challenging her to entrance duels left and right.

Sachiko is enjoying damaging villains. Any kind of Villains. They don't like the being damaged part of course. But they can just die or go to the Zig or something.

[The Aunts. They are Kotoko and Sumomo by name. One is a Peacebringer and One is a Warshade. This means one of these things is not like the other. Duh. The Warshade is related to the Peacebringer and the Peacebringer bonded to a lone survivor of a Pre Toulane Era Family tiff (Family/Tsoo turf battle that started COMPLETELY PEACEFULLY), and the Warshade took on the guise of the remains of the one who was being clutched and cried over. Ichigo's Father never really looked into the matter... ruined parties were so common... and when he heard stories of his other two daughters moving around the streets of Paragon... in less than 3 hours after their "deaths" (Piza to Paragon City)... he took them for ghosts and went off the deep end. Didn't help he knew Tsoo, and so HAD seen the Dead wandering about. Which brings us back to Ichigo... a circle is you!]

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(That was a lot of typing cleanup. More later.)