Shijuukara Famiron

Species: Human
Sex: Female
Age: 15
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 119 pounds

Physical Appearance

Being on the run, Shijuukara must conceal her true appearance. She wants to stay unnoticed, but she also respects her more elegant heritage and thus tries to keep an air suiting a princess, however subdued. Her long hair, coppery brown with hints of amber, is kept tied back in a simple ponytail. The holder features a stylized Rainbow Jerk enamel pin, a gift from a past friend of the family which she chose to match (and draw attention from) her brilliant purple eyes. Her clothing is conservative but regal, mostly consisting of flowing skirts and shirts adorned with simple embroidery along the edges, all in rich earthy and warm fawn tones. Those who look closely might recognize the embroidery as being the same inscriptions as those from the Murasame's swords, but she allows few to get close to her.

Personality

As it suited to someone of her position, Shijuukara has a dignified air to her - one that conceals the true storm of emotions beneath the surface. She once had a temper, a sense of humor, and a love for all of humanity and nature that she shared with the world...but that was when she had people she trusted. These days her cold façade disappears only when she is piloting a Zoid, for it's then that she is alone with her emotions and thoughts, the only observer the last connection to her family - the Mugenshousuu Liger. She's inherently mistrustful of people, but tries to treat them fairly...from a distance. If you betray her, however, she won't hesitate in dealing out whatever retribution she deems necessary.

Only when the revived Bio Zoid forces from New Digald have been extinguished will she truly be able to rest, and so for all her distant grace one can still detect a weary aura about her, the one of a soul which yearns for a peace that must be brought about by war...

Combat Style

Swift, deadly, and silent, she strikes with quicksilver slices of blade aimed to disable quickly, never kill. Only opponents she deems truly evil will unlock her darker side. It is then that Shijuukara shows her true potential as a fighter, becoming one in mind with her Zoid and stopping at nothing until they have sliced, crushed, and beaten their enemy into scrap.

History

Shijuukara's history is both a tragic and glorious one. She talks about it little, preferring to keep her past to herself - but the tale will be told here in full for your sake, dear reader.

Her father was king of the rebuilt Zuuri - son of both the princess Re Mii and the hero Ruuji Famiron. His goal was simple: to continue rebuilding their ravaged planet, and increase the nation's efforts to find Zoids and alliances lest they ever be attacked again.

Childhood was a busy yet happy affair for little Shijuukara, and she spent most of her early life in the rebuilt royal court. Her father loved nature, and had encouraged the local people to grow things nearby, leaving the palace surrounded by every manner of beautiful gardens. Shijuukara would sometimes wander among them when her parents were busy with matters of state, taking note of how unique they all were, like the people who had created them...yet how they were more beautiful as a whole. It was a lesson that would stick with her throughout her life, though she didn't know it yet.

Her father had always seemed uneasy about the possibility of an enemy attack, but his advisors and allies mostly dismissed this concern as paranoia, despite growing rumors of people again seeing strange silver Zoids in the outer villages. But the day Shijuukara turned fourteen, his suspicions would prove correct - a rogue faction, claiming to be a revival of the true purposes of the Digald Empire, emerged. Their attacks came ruthlessly from all directions at once and from every manner of Bio Zoid, many of which had never been seen before. Some were horrible chimeras of existing designs, still others were entirely new - Bio Seismo, Bio Liger...and the Bio Wyvern.

Some who encountered it said it was actually a fusion of Gene's destroyed Bio Tyranno and DNA from the fallen Gilvader of old, but everyone who encountered it died. It tore ruthlessly through villages despite everyone's attempts to stop it, and before long approached the old Famiron village of Mirodo. Shijuukara could not bear to see the family home destroyed, and against her father's wishes, took a Lanstag and headed off to revive the only Zoid she felt could stop this menace...the Murasame Liger.

Upon reaching the generator, Shijuukara begged the Murasame to find a way to let them draw the Bio Wyvern's attention away from the village. Without this they would be forced to fight among people's homes, risking innocent lives and the buildings which they'd worked so hard to rebuild. Her words inspired a change in the Murasame Liger, its armor turning the pure color of her tears: a beautiful shade of crystal. This granted it the ability to hide from the New Digald forces already arriving to surround the city, confusing both their eyes and their radar.

Shijuukara didn't have far to go before she encountered the Bio Wyvern, already in the process of destroying the forces her father had sent to rescue her. To her horror, he himself had led them, and she arrived just in time to see his Lanstag torn apart in its claws. Tossing the crumpled Zoid to the ground, the monstrous creature started charging a particle beam - what had to be the legendary Bio Ryuushi Hou. It wasn't aiming for her, Shijuukara realized...it was aiming for the village. She had to stop it, and so took the Crystal Murasame straight on into the beam, sword raised to split its path at what she thought would be the cost of her own life.

The Murasame's armor shattered like glass around it, but it somehow survived, staggering to its feet in defiance with its sword glowing. Angered that anything so small could survive its assault, the Bio Wyvern slapped the Murasame aside with one great wing, sending it flying into the waters along the village's edge. But the great Liger would not die so easily - not when it could hear the cries of its pilot and her village.

Born in the dark mists of Shijuukara's sorrow and hatred, the one creature that could defeat the Bio Wyvern came rising out of the waters. Many were familiar with the exploits of the great Ruuji Famiron and the Murasame Liger in the old wars, but none of them could have predicted this. Once again, the Liger had called upon the powers of Saisei and Evolut. For a moment shadows of the Hayate and Mugen followed the Murasame as it ran with the grace of a passing hurricane, and then the ghosts combined with the real form birthing the greatest creation to grace planet Zi: the Mugenshousuu Liger.

Ruuji and her father had both been too pure of heart to unlock the beast that dwelled within the Murasame Liger. All the ancient guardians secretly held the same power that drove the Gilvader of old to evil, and it was only through Shijuukara's rage and the Mugenshousuu's incredible ability that its suppressed dark side broke though. The transformation came in black lightning, crackling across the Liger as the horns on its head grew long energy blades, curving out in an all-too-familiar shape: Gilvader's horns.

But one must acknowledge one's dark side, not just suppress it...use its power to do what spirit alone cannot. Shijuukara knew this, and it was her strong will that kept the Liger from running amuck. As the village watched, the boosters along its legs flared, piercing blue wings of light arcing out from its shoulders: the angel to the Gilvader's demon. The balance in its heart restored, the Mugenshousuu roared challenge...and the two Zoids clashed, a giant and a hero. The Wyvern's particle beam cascaded uselessly off the new Liger's armor, and it danced nimbly around its claws and teeth. Shijuukara showed no mercy, slicing it to pieces until it fell, collapsing in a glistening silver-and-purple hulk of dissolving Hell Armor. The Wyvern's pilot swore revenge, his threats growing silent as the Liger's fangs finally pierced his Zoid's core.

Shijuukara passed out on the Mugenshousuu's controls, energy spent, and the Zoid grew still, the glow of its horns and wings fading. She awakened in the village the next day, the New Digald troops having fled after seeing their flagship Zoid go down at the hands of its protector. Even with them gone and the Bio Wyvern defeated, Shijuukara knew that she could not possibly stop the New Digald forces alone - she'd managed to save one village, but what about the rest of them?

With her father dead and an entire army after her blood that would no doubt return, there was no choice - she would have to go on the run. She would roam Zi, gathering support much as her grandfather and his companions had. And when the time was right, they would retake their world...

Zoid Specs

Mugenshousuu Liger

Fusion Type
Length: 22.3 meters
Height: 9.7 meters
Weight: 111 tons
Top Speed: 337 kph (666 kph in True Form)

Themesong: Tragic Kingdom (No Doubt)

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Weapons and Equipment

Sonfuugen Blades (left to right: Murasame Blade w/ Sword Cannon, Murasame Divider, Mugen Blade)
Triad Tail Blades (Murasame Slicer, Hayate Slasher, Mugen Cleaver)
Mane Cowl Blades x12
Crush Bite
Strike Laser Claw x4
Pile Bunker x2
3-Shot Gravity Bind Cannon
Super-Compact Hayate Booster x4
Angel Wing Boosters x12
Demon Blade Horns x2
Platinum Metal Zi Armor Coating

Description

The Mugenshousuu's face is wreathed in a dangerous array of razor-sharp blades, perfect for tearing apart any opponent that gets pats its saber teeth. The swept-back horns on its head appear a mystery until it unlocks its true form (detailed under Special Abilities below). On its chest is the mighty Gravity Bind Cannon, which adds the power of the Murasame and Hayate to the crushing power of the Mugen's regular Gravity Cannon, increasing the crushing effect it has on Bio Zoids' Hell Armor.

On its powerful shoulders are the mounting points for three great swords, all styled like the greatest weapon of its component forms. It is said there is strength in numbers, and the Sonfuugen blades are a perfect example. Each one can unfold to reach an opponent at any angle - don't go assuming they're immobile just because they're across the Mugenshousuu's back. Many have made that mistake and died for it.

The back of each piece of leg armor sports small versions of the boosters on Hayate's back, and along its side are concealed boosters, disguised as blades of sharpened metal. These, too, have their true usage revealed when the Mugenshousuu is in its true form. The leg armor is deceptively simple, in actuality being finely angled so as to best deflect beam fire, a technique said to be inspired by the Dekalto Dragon, one of the Mugen Liger's two brothers. The claws are just as deadly as the Mugenshousuu's blades, capable of charging with energy and viciously tearing apart Hell Armor weakened by the Gravity Bind Cannon.

Three spikes adorn the tail: the first a simple katana, the second a razor-edged short sword, the third a jagged blade. They represent each of the Ligers whose spirits are locked within the fusion. When the Mugenshousuu is angered and nearing transformation, the first glows blue, the second red-hot, and the third electric white.

Special Abilities

True Form
The Mugen Liger, for all its feline grace, is actually one of the three great dragons, original guardians of the Sky People. It is in the Mugenshousuu's true form that this finally becomes evident. The mysterious horns on its head grow blades resembling the horns of the ancient Gilvader, and the Liger itself gains energy wings along its shoulders, the front ones longer than the back. They are made of pure light glowing an incandescent blue, and can cut through even armor too strong for the Liger's blades to pierce.

It is a perfect expression of the balance between good and evil, and thus is truly amoral. This combined with its incredible raw power means its pilots run the risk of the Mugenshousuu Liger destroying all around it in battle without either malice or thought. Only one who realizes this and can handle the grave responsibility should dare unlock this form.

Gravity Cage
Even the speed of a Liger sometimes isn't enough, and thus the Mugenshousuu has this long-distance ace up its sleeve. The Gravity Bind Cannon charges with energy, then fires off three beams instead of its usual short blasts. These fly around an opponent, splitting apart and weaving a web of gold energy before collapsing inwards with deadly crushing results. Any Zoid that survives will be left weakened and slowed, an easy target for the Mugenshousuu's blades.