Thursday, January 17, 2008

   Haruki Exposè
I slept for twelve hours. It was awesome. That made up for the whole start of the week. Tomorrow will be tough but I'm tough too. Blah, I've got English soon though. Classes everyday sucks.

Okay, so now I'll get to the Haruki exposè. I'm posting two more flags tomorrow though since I'm not sure who'll get the next exposè. Copywrite The Unsaid Works.
When Epic starts, Haruki is fifty. I'm not sure if we see him in the show. He's Hogoshain and lives on Hogosha. He's connected to many of my characters. He housed Ai and Nayeli fr a couple days. Anastasius was trained by him and lived with him for about three years. He's Koji's adoptive father which makes Zhek sort of his son-in-law and Aleksei is grandson.
Now with that out of the way, Haruki Ketsuenhi is the owner of Hi Dojo. The dojo was once one of the top places to be trained if you wanted to become a samurai for the emporer. In the dojo's history, countless samurai have come out as well as two ninja. The dojo was pretty much Haruki's life.
Haruki was born the fourth of nine children. He was one of the three that survived with the other two being sisters. His family was extremely poor. Unable to make ends meet, his parents sent all the children away. Haruki was sent to a dojo where he quickly exceled as a swordsman. By the time he was fifteen he was one of the top ten swordmen in the south of Hogosha. Near twenty, he lft the dojo and opened his own. He soon was training samurai for the emporer and becomng steadly wealthy. He married Mizuko, a fisherman's daughter from the village, when he was twenty six. The two lived happily in thier wealthy and welcomed their son, Kuri, a year later. Mizuko soon started to become distressed at Haruki's work. Haruki spent most of his time training and when he wasn't doing that he was out fighting yakuza. He didn't spend much time with her or Kuri.
Things strained at home, Haruki took some time off from the dojo at twenty nine. When he was out with the family, he discoved the exsistance of a demon on Hogosha. He took the family back home and set out alone after the demon. He found a demon named Onitane and forced him into hiding. Haruki went home and was seen as a local hero. With new recognition, more people were coming to him for training. He took most on, pushing Mizuko and Kuri into the background even more. When he was thirty two there was a pirate attack on the local port. One of the dying pirates out of guilt brought the survivor, a two year old girl, to the dojo. Haruki took her in beieving the the little girl from apparently different origins would have other family looking for her after they heard of the attack. Mizuko was against it, not wanting to take care of another child that Haruki wouldn't pay much attention to. Haruki convinced her and she reluctently allowed the girl to stay. They called her Koji not knowing how to say her actual name. Over the next year, Haruki started to pay more attention to Kuri and Koji both. He even started to train Koji in self defense, still believing that someone would come for her. At the end of the first year with all four together, Mizuko got fed up with Haruki giving the girl special treatment. She took Kuri and left, moving a few villages away to her family's new home. Haruki was horribly devestated but turned his attention to Koji. He gave it another year before he accepted that Koji wasn't going anywhere. He saw Kuri quite often but never saw Mizuko again. When he was forty one Onitane returned. He fought with the demon but lost his right arm. Koji chased the demon off and after he recovered, he started training her in ninjutsu in case Onitane returned to get revenge on her. After the loss of his arm, Haruki had to switch from training samurai to giving small defense classes to women and children. It was a big blow for him. When he was forty four, he recieved news that Kuri had died in battle. Not even aware that his son had joined the army, this was especially hard for him to deal with. He even closed down the dojo for a few days just because he didn't want to see anyone. Zhek Vosyem came to the dojo a year later and offered Haruki a hefty dowery to marry Koji. Haruki allowed it but Zhek spent all his money and now was stuck on Hogosha. Haruki let the newlyweds stay at the dojo. He continued to train Koji as Zhek went to work as Haruki's groundskeeper to gain back some of the money. A year after the marriage, Koji and Zhek had a son, Aleksei. Haruki made the boy his heir. A month after Aleksei was born, Zhek went into the village to buy the family dinner. He didn't return. Haruki was furious but when he learned of demon worshipers known as Shirokage being very active in the area, he decided to give Zhek's characer the benifit of the doubt. He'd now lost a son and a son-in-law. He decided that he's try to train his adoptive grandson as soon as possible. He started getting Aleksei comfortable with holding a fist properly when he was forty seven. That same year a fourteen year old boy came to the dojo looking for a way to become a ninja. He could tell right away that Anastasius was very wealthy but decided to train him in exchange for him working around the dojo. When he was forty nine, Onitane appeared again. Haruki knew that he was no longer a match for this weak demon, but he knew Koji and Anastasius together could probably get rid of the demon and the Shirokage that followed him. He prepared them but during their preparations, Aleksei was taken by the Shirokage. Anastasius went after them but Koji had given up. Haruki knew that Anastasius would definatelu be killed if she wasn't with him and urged her to follow. A day after she left to get Anastasius, Hogosha was invaded by Zodiacus. The emporer decided to get rid of everyone who wasn't a full Hogoshain to make sure soldiers didn't hide out. With everyone he cared about not Hogoshain, Haruki tired to take action but he was simply just too old. Koji and Anastaius returned to Hi Dojo a few days after they left with Aleksei, Anastasius's missing cousin (Ai), a brothel runaway (Nayeli), and Zhek. Haruki gave them shelter at the dojo, since Ai was very injured, but the Hogoshain soldiers eventually got to their village. Haruki helped them escape onto some boats that had stopped at the docks. Koji asked him to come with them but he refused. Hogosha was his home even through the struggles. He's still hoping that they'll come back to see him. The dojo is very big and very empty.

I don't like how I wrote this out but that's okay. It looks more like and overview then an exposè. Yeah, so, that's Haruki. Good news for him is that Koji can come back because Zhek's a lord. Hogosha's not going to cut itself off from the nobility of other nations. A little about Hogosha, they're always at war. They've been at war with Zodiacus and Ludus for many many many years. They pretty much already took over Ludus. Zodiacus is really tiny compared to Ludus and Hogosha, but they're really tough. So, when they finally got into Hogosha, it really freaked out the emporer. We've got a character from Zodiacus. His name is Kahzun. He's not mine though so I don't know much about him. He's cool though. And Nayeli is half Ludus, so we got that too. And Haruki is going to get a really big surprise. Kuri isn't dead. I'll talk about him later though. It took me four hours to write this. Well, I started it and then had to run off to class.

Yeah, next time the Rixari flag and the Byely flag. That'll give me time to find someone else to do an exposè on. Have a good weekend.

.:The Unsaid Works' EPIC:.

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