Yuu Kotarou

"Thank you for choosing me."

Yuu Kotarou
Also Known As...	Strength
First Appearance	Thread 67
Organization
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.

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.

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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