Canon/Original: Canon
Codename: Deathstryke
Real Name: Yuriko Oyama
Nickname: Lady Deathstrike, Yuri
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Appearance: Deathstryke has obvious Asian qualities in her appearance. Her flawless golden yellow skin has no marks what so ever due to her regenerating abilities. As all Asians, her hair is black with no other color altering it, leaving her long hair matte black. For convenience sake, her hair is usually tied up into a ponytail and rarely allows her hair to be loose when she's outside or in the presence of others. There has been a few moments in the past when Deathstryke has cut her hair to shoulder length. Deathstryke stands up to 5'5 with a slim body stature, well toned from all her arduous physical exercises and training.
The most notable feature of Deathstryke however, is her bright azure blue eyes. Pending on the lighting, sometimes her eye color looks like it's white or cloudy gray, but no matter what color it is, Deathstryke's eyes always instills a vision of a cold and unfeeling soul.
Her finger nails are also silver, but since every woman these days paint their nails, they're not as unique and surprising as her eyes.
Clothing: In her usual day clothing, Yuriko is dressed in subtle and dull earthly colors, such as whites and light browns, making sure to catch as little attention as possible. She's often seen wearing a bright brown sun hat with large black shades to cover her intimidating and unique eyes. Oyama has rarely been seen with a dress and only wears it on very special and rare occasions, usually she wears simple jeans and a normal shirt for comfortable and easy movement. Also, her choice of footwear will always be sneakers and running shoes, as anything else would be too much of a hindrance to her movement, especially high heels. In colder environments where snow is evident, she usually wears large white or gray coats to blend with the background again.
During missions, Deathstryke wears a tight leather black zip-up suit that allows her to move swiftly and silently. Usually the suit is kept hidden beneath a white long jacket which she takes off when she's in the designated zone for her to begin work.
Powers: Much like the legendary Wolverine, Deathstryke is also gifted with powers that allows her to be a violent force in melee combat. Her body is bestowed with superhuman enhancements, these being superior strength, speed, agility and most notably, durability.
Her mutation reached her muscle fibers, increasing the amount of force it is capable to exert, giving her the ability of “super strength” to lift heavy objects up to one ton effortlessly. Traveling from her musculoskeletal system, the mutant gene also radically empowered her body's energy systems, greatly improving the amount of energy her phosphogen, anaerobic and aerobic system generates in her body. This surplus in the available energy she has maximized her potential in agility-related tasks, thereby improving her stamina, speed and reflexes all in one.
Finally, and most importantly, her mutation has given her near invincible endurance. Likewise with the dramatic growths in her muscles and energy producing systems, the gene has dramatically improved her ability for cellular repair and healing. Unlike normal situations where wounds require time for the cells to replicate and replace destroyed cells, the rate of cellular replication is so rapid that she has exhibited the ability to regenerate soft tissue that was burnt away in a matter of minutes. More severe wounds of course take more time. Interestingly, her cells have evolved into something more similar to stem cells, explaining the reason why she can regenerate even internal wounds with ease.
Deathstryke's mutation has already evolved her body to completely new standards unachievable by man, yet this was not the end of her empowerment, this was only the advent to something more godlike. As if her regeneration, agility and strength was not perfected enough, her undertaking in the project Weapon X turned Yuriko into a warrior of titanic qualities. Likewise in Wolverine's procedure, her skeletal system has been laced with molecules of impervious adamantium. Her fingers were replaced with 12 inch long adamantium claws, sharp enough to slice through any material like paper aside from metal of its own type.
Weakness: With such a plethora of genetic augmentations coupled with the godlike benefits from the Weapon X procedure, Deathstryke is seemingly perfected in every way. Unfortunately, where her body is dramatically improved, her mind is something of a different matter.
Beneath her cold gray eyes and her equally cold and lifeless facial expression, lies a furious and emotionally unstable fanatic. Scarred in the past, Yuriko's emotional status has been worsening throughout the years, especially after being laced with adamantium, her instability has delved to a severe state of psychosis.
This often blinds Deathstryke of her current objective if given the correct situation or environment that would provoke her. Ironically, her mental instability has also enforced a Japanese moral into her combat ethics, this being the ideal 'death before dishonor.' The phrase is taken to such extremes that Deathstryke has no understanding of the phrase 'tactical withdrawal' and if provoked, she will risk all extremities to utterly butcher her target into ribbons of flesh and carnage.
Deathstryke also would have extreme difficulty facing foes who may manipulate metal, and if powerful enough, Deathstryke is completely useless against metal manipulating foes, notably Magneto.
Also, a drawback of her godly adamantium infused skeleton, is the dramatically increased weight from the concentration of the metal that it prevents Deathstryke from swimming as she will sink indefinitely. Deathstryke usually keeps a fair distance away from harbors and areas where there are deep watery places.
Personality: Plagued by multiple traumatic events in her past, Deathstryke is a merciless assassin who tends to prefer being alone and unnoticed. Yuriko is usually very quiet and calm, speaking when only necessary or when there is wisdom to her words. She usually will not respond to idle chatter from strangers and pay very little attention to the events around her if they are unrelated to her daily life.
Beneath the cold, calm and unfeeling shell though, lies an uncontrollable monster that is fueled by her emotional trauma and issues. From the quiet and well mannered woman, when provoked, Deathstryke will lose all sense of rationality and become a feral beast with only one purpose and goal in mind, to rip everything to shreds. Deathstryke has not been able to control her sudden fluctuations and will have almost no immediate recollection of the events during her berserk mode.
In her normal daily life, Yuriko tends to prefer spending her time reading novels or practicing her combat skills. She rarely leaves her home and only does so for essential needs namely food or when she's dispatched to a mission.
History: Born in Osaka, Japan, Yuriko Oyama was the daughter and one of three children to Japanese yakuza lord Kenji Oyama who also was known as Kuroikaze Kizoku. As the daughter of a highly Japanese family following strict traditional values, Yuriko was often looked down upon when compared to her two male siblings who were both older, giving them more power in the family. Due to her isolation within the family, she started to have emotional issues since a very young age, often remaining silent and preferring to be alone while other children played.
Her emotions were a huge part of her childhood, where unlike her other classmates and playmates, they had loving families and often received attention from their parents while Yuriko was often left alone. The amount of time she spent in the shadows of her house allowed her emotional issues to slowly manifest. Yet she was still a relatively normal girl, perhaps more pessimistic than other children and more depressive, but she could still be classified as something normal. It was one day when her father decided to scar her brothers faces and her own to cope with his dishonor from World War II that Yuriko started to develop her insanity. She watched as her own father sliced and etched ritualistic designs onto her brothers, blood flowing down like ink to his 'brush', and when it was her turn, after a long struggle her father was finally able to slice into her skin. Though it was that day that both of them realized discovered something miraculous. Yuriko's skin regenerated as soon as his knife left her broken skin. No scars, no marks, it was perfectly healed in a matter of seconds.
As much as her face was left unmarked, that was the day Yuriko's mind was scarred.
Realizing his own daughter's gifts, he immediately changed his focus to making his perfect weapon. Yuriko was given all the attention of her father, but in the form of arduous training and cold-hearted discipline. She was to be made into a heartless, ruthless, and merciless slayer with no boundaries. Yuriko was trained in the arts of kenjutsu and multiple other martial arts during this period. Her sword skills were unmatched, often able to defeat whole dojo's on her own.
After all the training, Yuriko was finally put to the test of her capabilities. Her mission was to go to a Canadian facility along with her father to discover what has happened with her brothers who were sent there earlier. Upon reaching their destination, Yuriko only found the stench of blood and the bodies of both her brothers disguised as scientists who were unfortunately slayed by Wolverine during his rampage. Unable to cope with the trauma, her emotions became too unstable and caused her to strike a deathly blow to her father, killing him in one solid strike to the neck. The impact of the blow was so severe Kenji's whole spinal region was severely ruptured and warped from her strike.
Regaining consciousness after killing her own father, she fell to her knees and cried among the corpses of her family. A saving and comforting hand came to her shoulder, a voice of salvation and vengeance from the spared doctor Cornelius. After witnessing Yuriko's powerful execution, she was codenamed Deathstryke and inducted to the project Weapon X as one of his loyal agents among others.
Team Affiliates: None.
RP Sample: There was a thick stench in the air, a stench Yuriko was familiar with. For a moment she closed her eyes, losing control over her thoughts for a brief moment when the smell reminded her of her past. She re-opened them once more, there was an important task at hand, walking side by side with her father to a facility. The smell was strong, it plagued her mind as memories constantly relapsed. “Dame! DAME! Watashino kao wo kiranaide! OTOSAN! KIRANAIDE!” Her eyes shut once more as the voice of a familiar little girl filled her thoughts, the vision of her father holding a knife with a frown while her brothers kneeled obediently behind him, blood painting their clothing as it dripped from their chins, their eyes shut. She remembered this smell, it was the smell of blood.
The two were silent in their slow walk in the facility, following a trail of dripped blood and lying corpses. They were nearing their destination, their goal. It was then that Kenji Oyama cleared his throat, turning his head to his tall daughter with his mutilated and scarred face, forming a sea of wrinkles as he spoke. “Remember my daughter, we are here on important matters, these people stole my work and we are here to bring justice, slay all who come in your way.” His voice was very traditional Japanese, calm and controlled as he pronounced every tone with a sense of pride and superiority. Yuriko only nodded obediently, the image of her father with his blood stained knife still painted in her mind vividly.
The lab's floor was covered in blood diluted with water splashed from the central tank, cables and other equipment lying on the floor, as lifeless as the corpses that lined the edges. Yuriko tried to keep her focus up away from the dead, they were here to claim something, not pay homage to the thieves who dishonorably stole her father's work. “Come this way.” Her father said, walking over to the tank slowly, his hands behind his back. Yuriko couldn't help but look down and froze, a cold shiver running down her spine as the familiar faces of her brothers laid on the floor before her, both of them with wounds showing signs of being slashed and impaled. “Yuriko! Come here.” Her father stopped and turned to look at his frozen daughter, “They have done their job and now you must fulfill yours, their loss is only a miniature setback to my work, now come.”
Yuriko's body shook violently, tears running down her eyes as her memory haunted her again and again, the screams of her younger self echoing in her mind. Kenji walked over to Yuriko, looking down at his sons with a frown of disappointment, “Come with me Yuriko.” Yuriko looked up with a cold and lifeless glare, her eyes piercing into Kenji's like bullets through a heart.
“....” She lost consciousness as her hand formed a chop and struck out with lightning speed and precision, slamming into her father's neck and sending him off into the air like a rag doll hit by a speeding truck, crashing into the wall while his spine felt a shock wave of impact from Yuriko's strike. His body was absolutely shattered when he flew into the cold metal walls. Fortunately for Kenji, his life ended as soon as Yuriko's palm touched his fragile and aged neck.
Oyama fell to her knees, shivering in madness as she slowly regained consciousness once more, finding herself kneeling on the bodies of her brothers with the new addition of her father by their side. She couldn't withstand it anymore, her sanity was completely ruptured by these events as she leaned down onto her brother's wet and bloodied bodies. As she cried quietly to herself, Yuriko felt a soft hand touch her shoulder, gently squeezing it as a soothing voice filled her mind. “Come with me. Deathstryke.”
Code:easy-as-pi
Previous RP Experience: I've been roleplaying for 9 years including this year. My roleplaying career began with a Lord of the Rings rpg in Ezboard, then an X-Men Movieverse forum when the second movie was released and when Matrix:Revolutions was on screen. Since then I've seen forums rise and die out and move from one to another. I stopped roleplaying in ezboard in probably, 2003-2004 and moved on with a forum, Anime Highschool, to a new forum hosting services by invisionfree.
Since then i've stayed and roleplayed on and off in AHS, most recently breaking away to help form another forum named Shadowside, taking part in directing most activities and events for the members and help create a more friendly environment for new players
Oyama, Yuriko, Third Time's The Charm :)
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