Yuu Kotarou

"Thank you for choosing me."

Yuu Kotarou
Also Known As...	Strength
First Appearance	Thread 67
Organization	Seventh Officio
Rank
Occupation	Soul in a weapon
Ability	Hand to Hand Combat, Self Healing
Weapon	Ogre Arms (Golden Gauntlets)
Height
Date of Birth

Character Summary

Yuu Kotarou is the soul inside the golden gauntlets. She used to be one of the Blessed Lady's chosen until her eventual defeat in combat. Of all golden weapons, she is the one with the best relationship to Chiaki Matsuda, providing her with power while she uses the gauntlets.

Physical Description

• A short tanned girl with white hair and completely black eyes with fiery orange pupils.
• She wears a black leather jacket with a hood and high collar covering her face, her legs are clad in thigh high white stockings and black maryjanes

Personality

• Yuu is a timid girl.
• She greatly enjoys fighting, switching to a rougher personality in the heat of combat.
• She is eager to prove herself useful to her wielder.

Character History

Training

Chiaki trains with Kharn and decides to use the golden gauntlets. She somehow enters Yuu’s mind, who thanks her for being chosen and lends her new master her strength to beat her opponent. She heals Chiaki's wounds and mentions her auto-cannons, but accepts her master's decision to stop fighting and retreats.

When Chiaki engages Kharn in a training match in Siberia using golden weapons, she gets beaten down hardly. As Kharn is threatening to cut her arm off unless she yields, Chiaki briefly enters Yuu's memories, encountering the soul inside the gauntlets she is wearing for the first time.

Yuu thanks her for choosing her and agrees to help Chiaki take on the chainaxe user, stating that Chiaki can take it. They grasp each others hands and Chiakis mind returns to her body, Yuu now awakened and talking to Chiaki in her mind. Seeing Kharn, Yuu mentions that she always wanted to fight the Blood God's Daughter but never had the chance to, before taking control of Chiakis body and punching Kharn across the room.

She gives control back to Chiaki and heals the wound on her shoulder. They get ready for another round and Yuu mentions that the gauntlets' fingers contain autocannons, but Chiaki decides to stop fighting Kharn on Midoris request. Yuu is somewhat disappointed, saying that she could have put Kharn down in two seconds, but accepts Chiakis reason for not wanting to kill a friend and retracts her power.

Kharn tells Chiaki to keep the bangles and to ask for her name, upon which the soul formally introduces herself as Yuu Kotarou.

Return

Back in Japan Chiaki talks to Yuu inside her mind. They talk about Yuu's past as a magical girl, the contract that freed her from the hospital and how her Incubator was more interested in her continued growth than hunting witches. Yuu traveled the world to train herself, fighting many magical girls all over until Lance Kilgore cheated in a duel, shooting the magical girl before she even started moving.

After Chiaki returns to Japan, she decides to speak to Yuu again while inside her personal vault. While she is unsure of how to make contact, the spirit inside the Gauntlets senses the probing presence of the girl wearing her and invites her into her mind space.

Chiaki finds herself in a snowy landscape, right next to a passed out bear. One of Yuu's sparring partners apparently, knocked out by a single, long trained, punch.

Upon Chiaki's question, Yuu explains that she did not belong to an Officio in the same way her current owner does. She contracted with an Incubator who explained the whole magical girl deal and mentions that he seemed to be interested in her continued growth more than anything.

He approached her while she was hospitalized with strong asthma and even offered to supply grief seeds whenever she needed one, but Yuu decided to hunt witches whenever she could find any regardless. At least when she could find any in between her continued training that even took her to America once, where she fought a magical girl that nearly killed her with a kitchen knife.

She tells Chiaki that she received her golden weapon from a pretty girl with long, white hair, but can't remember a lot about it other than falling for her at one point. She also explains that Lance Kilgore cheated during a fight they had. She needed money to return to Japan and bet her bracelets, intending to fight fair without using magic. Kilgore had her shot before she could even land one punch and would have killed her if the Blessed Lady did not offer her a way out.

While being inside a golden weapon is admittedly boring, Yuu thinks that there could be worse things. Before leaving, Chiaki pats Yuu on the head, earning a surprised but pleased reaction from the girl who completely forgot what it is like to have somebody else around to do that kind of thing.

Before Chiaki leaves, she asks about Yuu's Incubator. She explains that he called himself the Seventh, a white cat with long floppy ears and a red scarf that always flows in the wind, even when it was calm. As Chiaki is about to leave, Yuu throws a handful of snow at her face, removing her from her mind for the time being.

Trivia

• Yuu is a direct port of Yuu/Strength from Black Rock Shooter, the only difference is being a magical girl in this setting.

NECO Profile

*DECEASED*
NAME: Kotarou Yuu
	"I’m sorry...Here, let me help you up.”
OFFICIO: Seventh, in…wherever they want to be
RANK: Wandering Wuxia
BIO: Known as The Ogre in magical girl circles, Kotarou Yuu was a legend in her own right – she’d wander the world trying to improve her punch-fu, challenging and defeating magical girls left and right. Eventually they turned it into a game, though she might never have realized – the Sixth and Eighth especially competed to see who could last the longest against The Ogre before going down. Her win record was impeccable up until her unfortunate death at the hands of Lance Kilgore a few years ago.
ABILITY: Punching, though she can set her fists on fire, because that’s totally not excessive or anything.
WEAPONRY: Fists, though she eventually acquired some kind of magic superfists.
	STRENGTH	 SS
	SPEED		 C, A in bursts
	MELEE 		 SS
	RANGED		 F
	MAGIC 		 D
	TACTICS		 D
	CHARM		 A+

TRIVIA
-She used to have a really adorable attitude, and she’d tend to her opponents after she beat them, shyly asking them for bus fare or enough money for lunch. Most reports say she turned into a real jerk toward the end of her career, though, and all that mattered to her was finding someone stronger.

-Yuu makes most of her money by collecting and picking up trash, then recycling it. It improves the environment AND makes people’s lives better! Makes you feel like kind of a jerk, huh?	

-Poor kid misses her master terribly, some old man on a tiny little island out in the ocean. He passed away shortly after she left on her journey, and she never got to learn his ultimate technique.

Gallery

Art by Deculture

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