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Yukio

Yukio the Wild One v2.1

By Sébastien Andrivet

Source of Character: Marvel Universe (chiefly Wolverine and X-Men titles)

Helper(s): Chris Cottingham, Frank Murdock, Pufnstuff, Tom Eilers

Reasons (1): The first version was assembled from approximative memories ; this rewrite is on the other hand fully researched. Rather than use various small tweaks and oddities for her thrown weapons' stats, I went for a Skilled Power for her blades since it was much more straightforward (though somewhat Champions-ish).

Reasons (2): Officially, Yukio is 5'9", but she's rarely drawn as being that tall (though of course comic book heights tend to be inconsistent) and I've used values that are closer to how she's actually pictured.

Game Stuff

Yukio

"Gotcha !" (her signature, recurrent exclamation)

"I'm a tigress, Logan. But if you think me skilled in the arts of war... wait 'til you see me perform those of love."

Wolverine: "Are you flamin' crazy, woman - playin' chicken with a 200-mile-per-hour bullet train ? D'you want to die ?!"
Yukio: "Does it matter ? I will eventually. So will you. But until then, Logan, I want to live every moment to the fullest ! And when I die -- I wish to die spectacularly !"

"We are two of a kind, soul-mates -- born rebels, Logan, who make our own rules in a society where we have no place. And which has no true place for us. I love you Logan-chan - kill me, and kill yourself."

"Life is the ultimate adventure, wind-rider, and death the prize that awaits us all. Since it's inevitable, why worry about it ?"

Yukio: "Hello. I am called Yukio, and any friend of Wolverine is a friend of mine."
Jubilee: "How come he doesn't know any plain girls with frumpy tastes in clothes --?"

"Let them run for their boring little lives -- you and I get to do the fun stuff."

"You pour me some drinks, Logan-san, and we'll sing a few songs and tell lies about all the good times we had !"

"Lost causes are my speciality."

"I am not your blood mother, Amiko, but you, Logan and I are related in a way few families are. In our lives, we've each had to face a life and death question. And now it's your turn. I need your help, Amiko. So what will it be - victim or victor ?"

(To a pensive Storm) "Earth to goddess. Anybody home ?"

"Logan, Amiko's a teenager. You should be happy she's already outgrown that whole rebellious phase she was going through." (beat, mutter to herself) "God knows where she picked that up."

Yukio

Dex: 06	Str: 03	Bod: 04	Motivation: Thrill
Int: 05	Wil: 04	Min: 05	Occupation: Outlaw
Inf: 04	Aur: 04	Spi: 05	Resources {or Wealth}: See below
Init: 017		HP: 020

Powers: Projectile weapon: 05
Bonuses and Limitations:

• Projectile weapons is a Skilled Power
• Projectile weapon has Autofire
• Projectile weapons requires having efficient small, bladed thrown weapons at hand - usually various types of shuriken and/or throwing knives.

Skills: Accuracy (Projectile weapon): 08, Acrobatics (Athletics, Dodging, Hard Target): 07, Artist (Dancer): 03, Athletics (Climbing): 06, Martial Artist (EV): 04, Medicine (First aid): 03, Military science (Demolitions): 04, Thief (Stealth): 08, Thief (Concealment): 04, Thief (Escape artist): 05, Vehicles (Land): 05, Weaponry (Melee)*: 06
Advantages: Area Knowledge (Japan - particularly Tokyo ; Reputed night clubs), Expertise (Japanese martial arts lore and recognition ; the Hand), Headquarters (see below), Language (Japanese), Iron Nerves, Lightning Reflexes, Schtick (Blindside adept, Sweeping Autofire (Projectile weapon Power), Goonbane (Projectile weapon Power only), Fall Guy), Familiarity (High-end liquors and sake, clubbing fashions)
Connections: Street (Low), Underworld (Low), Wolverine (James Howlett/Logan, High), Storm (Ororo Munroe Iqadi T'Challa, High)
Drawbacks: SIA toward Thrill, Dependent (Amiko-chan), MIA toward Wolverine, Misc.: Yukio's HPs spending is penalised by two columns on the Genre table when somebody is trying to kidnap her and/or Amiko
Equipment:

• A number of throwing blades (throwing stars, bo-shaken, throwing knives...) - allowing her to use her Skilled Power
• Yukio's throwing blades are sometimes coated with poison or sedatives [Poison touch: 10, Range: 03, Ammo: 01], which she tends to keep in reserve for high priority targets. Her use of chemicals is infrequent, though, and generally only appears when driven by the plot. Note that the attack is *not* treated as Projectile Weapons Combined with Poison Touch, but as a Poison Touch attack using a specific Range, and her Accuracy for AV -- when she uses Poison Touch for Bashing Combat, the damage from the spike somehow becomes negligible.
• Yukio has a wooden crate in her flat with about a hundred kilos of bladed weaponry, climbing gear, shuriken, etc. She will often pack some sort of Japanese fighting knife on her - [BODY 05, EV 03 (04 w/STR, 05 w/Martial Artist)] - but doesn't usually use it when fighting. Likewise she occasionally has a sai strapped to her thigh, but is never seen actually using it. Yukio chiefly uses her bladed weaponry when on the warpath against the Hand or similar opponents ; in such situations she'll likely use one of her Katana [BODY 07, EV 05].
• Trendy keitai, obviously
• Her stash of gear also includes sophisticated (but not cutting edge) surveillance equipment, particularly of the audio kind. With her stealth and daring this is enough to run surveillance of highly secured installations. Her kit quickly grew to include the standard stuff (night vision goggles included), though it's mission-specific gear.

 

Background

Real Name: Unrevealed, her actual first name seems to be Yukiko
Other Aliases: The Wild One
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Amiko (foster daughter), Logan (aka Wolverine, adoptive father of Amiko)
Group affiliation: Former member of Xavier's Mutant Underground
Base Of Operations: Tokyo
Height: 5'7" Weight: 110 lbs
Eyes: Brown Hair: Black
Other distinguishing features: Dragon tattoo across her back and buttocks

Powers and Abilities

The Wild One is an extremely fast, mobile and agile athlete, acrobat and fighter. She's trained in versions of traditional Japanese martial arts, apparently centred on jujitsu (pragmatic close-combat techniques for warriors) and shurikenjutsu (techniques for throwing various small blades, historically a part of many jujitsu schools) - though she's also a proficient kenjutsu fighter and even demonstrated some mastery of ni-to-kenjutsu.

Her fighting style tends to be evasive and highly acrobatic, with her offence favouring low kicks and volleys of extremely accurate throwing blades. Yukio has demonstrated the ability to kill three men at once with deftly-hurled knives hitting all three targets in vital spots - even when her opponents are surrounding her.

In her very first appearance Yukio knocks out and lastingly sickens Wolverine with poisoned shuriken. Whilst this sound very impressive, that was in 1982 - back then Wolverine was still being defined as a character, and his healing factor was much less potent than in subsequent years. Her ability to escape his enhanced senses should be viewed in the same context. For this profile, this incident is just considered to be the use of very powerful but still 'normal' poison, and a high but not staggering Thief (Stealth) score.

The Wild One is famous for her somewhat frequent use of crazy, high-risk, acrobatic tactics. A well-known example was, while fighting on a high mountain road, to jump over an opponent and off the mountain. As it turns out her gamble paid off and the howling winds threw her back on the road immediately, allowing her to attack her surprised opponent from behind. She likely has tuned down those tactics as her personality evolved.

Yukio's level of proficiency is cinematic, but far from superhuman. She can handle action movie-level opposition with gusto, but a squad of Hand genin or a very high-level master (such as Ogun or Shingen) is clearly too much for her - she doesn't have the HPs or BODY, not to mention the mass, STR and EV. She will usually be unable to credibly oppose superhumans or mystical creatures.

Yukio seems to be a scholar in the Japanese martial arts lore, and knows a whole lot about the Hand, its history, its factions and its politics. Part of her Hand knowledge comes from Goro the Poisoner (a defector who died after escaping and telling her what he knew), but it seems that she has several other sources. Yukio also has a very efficient network of informants that keep tabs on actual and suspected Hand members, allowing her to track many of its activities.

History:

"Yukio" is an enigma and a woman without any known past -- which seems to be the way she wants it. It has been claimed that she saw herself as an historical ronin. Masterless warriors and servants, suspended outside of society without a role, a destiny or tethers, ronin ("wave men") were often forced into functioning as outlaws and mercenaries, which is Yukio's case.

Yukio's actual first name seems to be Yukiko - "Yukio" is a male name (meaning "fortunate man", whereas Yukiko means "fortunate girl"). The reason behind this bit of gender-bending is unknown, though according to Wolverine this masculinisation of her name occurred at the same time she started wearing her hair very short, also in a masculine cut. Yukio has made it clear that she didn't want to talk about it, even with Wolverine. That she's running around with a male name (in an English-speaking area, that would be the rough equivalent of calling herself Maurice) is a minor part of what makes Yukio famous in the Japanese underworld.

Given her deep knowledge of the Hand, her wish to oppose them and the mysteries about her past, it is quite possible that Yukio is a former member of the Hand.

At some unclear point in the past (perhaps the late 1970s, making the usual assumptions about everybody's ageing rate), Yukio was an international thief, sometimes running into a more principled thief, Remy Lebeau - the future Gambit. During a series of ten perfect heists in London, Yukio informed the police about Lebeau's presence to confuse the investigation and facilitate her return to Tokyo - but she actually was tricked by her rival and arrested by the Met. She presumably escaped quickly and returned to Japan.

Yukio and Lebeau are also known to have been on opposite sides of assignment in Singapore and Milan, among other places.

Wolverine

Yukio's first documented appearance, back in the early 1980s, was as the premier assassin for the powerful clan Yashida - a fixture of Japanese politics, industry and underworld. Back then, the clan was headed by the feared lord Shingen. The traditionalist, domineering Shingen-sama had taken a very dim view of the romance between his daughter Mariko and a foreigner, the diminutive Canadian mutant Wolverine. When he returned after years of mysterious absence, Shingen-sama married Mariko off for political gain to a man who beat her, and Wolverine soon arrived in Japan to intervene.

Expecting this, Shingen-sama had Yukio act as unseen security around Mariko-san. Yukio felled Wolverine from the shadows with a volley of shuriken lacquered with a very powerful poison, and the Canadian only survived this and the subsequent confrontation with lord Shingen thanks to his superhuman healing factor. Intrigued by the foreigner, Yukio was sent by Shingen to gain his trust. She shadowed him when he was thrown out of the Yashida property to die, and intervened when three xenophobic thugs decided to finish Logan off. She then picked Wolverine up and brought him to a safehouse, as the dazed Canadian's metabolism was fighting off the powerful poison.

Shingen sent the Hand after Wolverine, and an entire cadre soon attacked him and Yukio - since the attack had to be a real threat to be believable. Yukio was overwhelmed and wounded, but this time it was the healed Wolverine who saved her. Strongly attracted toward the foreigner, Yukio pretended that she was an enemy of Shingen and the Hand, gambling that Wolverine had never detected her when she ambushed him on Yashida property. Obsessed by Mariko-san, however, Wolverine couldn't give in to her advances, which only reinforced Yukio's desire toward him.

Meanwhile, Shingen set things up for Yukio to assassinate a rival, Katsuyori-san, during negotiations. Yukio manipulated Wolverine into escorting her (telling him that she was beset by mob enemies), then killed her target by booby-trapping his car with explosives. Meanwhile, the other half of Shingen's plan also worked - Wolverine went berserk when he was attacked by Yashida assassins, and the horrified Mariko witnessed the bloody scene.

Morally crushed by this incident, Wolverine drifted into Yukio's arms and they painted the town red, drinking very hard and getting into all sorts of trouble in the worst dives of Tokyo's red light districts. At one point, Yukio gambled with death as she dragged Wolverine with her to make love on the tracks as a bullet train arrived - but despite the alcohol Wolverine reacted in time and they survived.

The lovestruck Yukio decided to keep Wolverine and betray Shingen ; however Shingen then sent a half-dozen Hand ninja to order her to stop fooling around and murder Wolverine. Yukio took her decision and killed the Hand agents, but Wolverine then mumbled Mariko's name in his sleep.

Highly distraught as she realised Wolverine would only love Mariko-san and she'd only love him, Yukio decided to die in an appropriately spectacular way - but during her preparations she ran into a friend of Wolverine, Asano, an officer with Japanese intelligence (presumably the PSIA). In the darkness, she killed Asano. When Wolverine came in, he realised that Yukio had been a Shingen agent all along ; unable to confront him, she fled. Wolverine eventually intercepted her, but another Hand team tried to kill them both and Yukio slipped away.

Yukio attemped to leverage her accidental murder of Asano into buying peace with Shingen. This seemed to work for a brief time, but Shingen-sama was but playing with her and proceeded to beat her up with lethal intent. The arrival of Wolverine within the property interrupted this, and Shingen sent Mariko and her husband away so he could confront the mutant.

This didn't work, as Mariko and the man ran into Wolverine as they left. Mariko's husband tried to take his wife hostage, but Yukio killed him, saving Wolverine's love. Unable to forgive the death of Asano, but unable to ignore her saving Mariko, Logan let Yukio go, though she tearfully kissed him before she vanished into the night.

Storm and Shadowcat

Later, learning that Wolverine was to return to Japan to finally marry Mariko, Yukio hovered in the shadows nearby to see him, and that was how she spotted the Silver Samurai getting ready to ambush Logan and his team mates. She attacked the Samurai long enough for the X-Men to come in and force him to flee, and Yukio vanished. During this incident she briefly met one of the X-Men, Storm. The two women became best friends almost instantly.

Yukio soon became an ally of the X-Men, operating with them as they realised that the Viper was somehow involved in Yashida business. She teamed up with Storm in directly facing the Viper and the Samurai. During the operation, Storm was nearly killed as a technological device turned her powers against her, but Yukio saved her and help her cross Tokyo to a suitable hospital.

At this point of her life, Storm had been experiencing a mounting malaise about her identity ; admiring Yukio's carefree craziness, she decided to completely changed her style to be more like her new friend. She and Yukio came up with a leather punk look for Storm, even including a mohawk - as Storm's long, lush hair had been damaged when she was hit by her own lightning.

A few days later, the mind-controlled Yashida Mariko rejected Wolverine during the marriage ceremony. This didn't change the relationship between the lady ronin and the Canadian, though, as Wolverine found himself unable to get over this for years.

Later, when Wolverine came back to Japan to recover the missing Kitty Pryde, Yukio immediately learned about it and found him, attacking him for fun and thrills before offering her help. She went to investigate the corporate headquarters of Shigematsu Industries, a front for the Yakuza syndicate with whom Wolverine was dealing to find Pryde.

In a clash with the bodyguard Shumai, a renegade sumo wrestler, she learned what Shigematsu's plans were for the Prydes. She also saved the life of Carmen Pryde, Kitty's father, who was detained at Shigematsu's - and she later proved instrumental in stopping Kitty, who had been brainwashed into becoming the pupil of mystical ninja master Ogun. Whilst Wolverine and Kitty confronted Ogun, Yukio fought Shumai a second time as she learned of his plans to take control of the Shigematsu clan.

Though Yukio had been very happy to be reunited with Wolverine for a while, seeing him discuss with Yashida Mariko made her hostile and bitter, and she left abruptly.

Some later bits of dialogue imply that, during this general time frame, Yukio shared some undisclosed adventures with Storm.

The early 1990s

In the early 1990s, Yukio heard that the Hand (specifically the splinter group headed by Matsuo Tsurayaba, called the Death Touch Cult) was looking for a freelancer to kill an American teenager in Tokyo. Intrigued, she soon determined that the target was Wolverine's sidekick, Jubilation Lee, and found her first. She took Jubilee under her protection, and even managed to save her from the cyborg Cylla, working for Tsurayaba. During that case, Yashida Mariko was finally killed by the Hand.

As Wolverine was lost in deep mourning, Gambit (now an X-Man) briefly tried to convince his old foe Yukio to reach out to him. Yukio curtly refused, apparently because she didn't want to intrude on Wolverine's grief or become a disposable rebound romance.

Two years later, Yukio was manipulated in leading the techno-organic Phalanx to the X-Men. She had been approached by agents disguised as humans who hit on her during a party. Though she was interested, she sensed something was wrong and contacted Storm, meeting her in a night club in New York City. That was what the Phalanx intended, and three agents attacked the two women, who narrowly prevailed. To Yukio's considerable annoyance Lebeau came in to help his team-mate, and ended up saving the lady ronin from drowning. The three destroyed the Phalanx hunters through teamwork.

Yukio had realised that each year, Wolverine would discreetly come back to the temple where he and Mariko had planned their marriage ceremony, to commemorate her passing. Learning that others had noticed this, she briefly came to warn him of a possible ambush - especially since she knew that Wolverine was at that point greatly weakened by the loss of his Adamantium. Tsurayaba's killers were indeed present and might have vanquished Wolverine had Yukio not told them they were attacking a ringer, pointing out the bone claws and lack of a powerful healing factor. The tricked ninjas left.

Sugar and everything nice

The weakened and depressed Wolverine was at that point closing some loose ends in his life, suspecting that he might die or permanently revert to an animal-like state soon. Finding some solace with Yukio, he decided to hand over to her two of his Japanese responsibilities - the Yashida Honour Blade (a legendary katana symbolising the clan) and the care of Amiko-chan. It was soon arranged to have the Silver Samurai take care of the sacred katana instead, but Amiko remained with Yukio.

It also started being implied that Logan and Yukio had become lovers during this general time frame, though it was an intermittent (and possibly open) relationship, only active during Wolverine's stays in Japan.

 

In 1995, Yukio ran into X-Factor (the government version, headed by Havok) in Tokyo, and rescued Havok who had been kidnapped by the mercenary Fatale. Some time after that she learned of major maneuvering by a number of Japanese governmental and underworld faction to secure the Red Ronin giant robot, then held by the Fujikawa corporation. Yukio was considering stealing the robot herself just for kicks, but it was accidentally activated, and was stopped by Wolverine and Sunfire.

Tsurayaba and his Death Touch Cult soon attempted again to gain revenge on Wolverine, kidnapping Yukio and Amiko. That attempt narrowly failed, and Wolverine and his allies rescued the pair. However, nobody realised that Amiko had actually been turned into a Hand spy after she was brainwashed into accepting that Logan was actually her mother's murderer.

When Elektra came to Japan to close some accounts with the Hand, her contact the Silver Samurai took her to Yukio for her expertise in Hand lore. Yukio and Elektra invaded a Hand base, thanks to Yukio's impeccable intelligence about the place. Though the operation went well and they killed a Hand leader, this did not take Elektra closer to her real target, the super-ninja Kuroyama. Yukio volunteered some fresh intelligence about Hand activities in Hong Kong, and Elektra left to follow that lead.

Amiko had informed her Hand masters that Yukio and Elektra were coming, which nearly led to the failure of the mission. Since Amiko's brainwashing was never mentioned again after that, and Elektra had pointed out that only Amiko could have informed the Hand, it is likely that Yukio made arrangements. Presumably, the kid was deprogrammed and received specialised care to help undo the damage the Hand had wrought -- the simplest hypothesis being that one of the X-Men's telepath was called in via Storm for psychic surgery.

Some months later, another attempt was made to use Yukio against Wolverine. This time she was one of a number of close female friends of Logan to be brainwashed by the Viper. These women captured the mutant so the Viper could have him honour an old promise.

The early 2000s

Yukio continued to change with Amiko's presence and the responsibilities that it implied ; she even dropped the whole "dirt-poor ronin" lifestyle and reinvested her earnings (including a windfall from an undisclosed big assignment) into a huge apartment in downtown Tokyo.

Amiko-chan surmounted most of the difficulties tied to her early childhood and came out of her shell, abandoning her fixation on mythical ninja and samurai stories. She still remained prone to a bit of early teens attitude and using the skills Yukio had taught her to take bullies down, though. She also tended to hang around in dives and bad parts of town, with Yukio failing to see a problem with this.

Wolverine continued to make visits - with Yukio being at that point his lover and the foster mother of his adoptive daughter, Logan's ties with Japan were considerably reinforced. He was often gone for months, though. After one such lenghty absence (that followed his brainwashing as one of the Horsemen of the mutant mastermind Apocalypse), he came to appreciate how much Amiko-chan resented his absence.

Predictably, Wolverine's presence led to trouble, as it coincided with an attempt by the feared Kaishek clan, a global Mongolian criminal organisation, to hack itself a part of the Japanese action. The Silver Samurai came to beseech Wolverine and Yukio for help in dealing with the brutal takeover. In the ensuring melee, Yukio killed three attackers but was then forced to surrender when Amiko was threatened.

The Kaishek clans tried to use Wolverine as an agent in their internal squabbles by leveraging the lives of Yukio and Amiko. This, of course, proved to be an extraordinarily bad decision that resulted in enormous bloodshed and destruction. Yukio and Amiko were locked up along with the Samurai, but the latter was too grievously wounded to help. Amiko's hands being tied a bit more loosely, Yukio and her foster daughter managed to kill their captors and get out of the Kaisheks's hands, though it was a very close call.

Furious over the threat against her foster daughter, Yukio thrashed one of their captors until she talked, then left for Outer Mongolia for blood revenge. Wolverine tracked her down, taking the recovering Samurai and Amiko with him so the Kaishek men in Japan couldn't find them.

Yukio had found the last Kaishek chief and was about to kill her when Wolverine came in, telling her to let him do it so the blood debt would be his to bear. The distraction resulted in Yukio being shot, but Amiko (who had disobeyed orders to stay behind) intervened and saved her. The Kaishek stronghold was destroyed and their power sapped ; as to Yukio her gunshot wounds were fully healed.

Amiko was soon kidnapped again, this time by a Yakuza boss, in order to summon Wolverine to his private island. Logan somehow convinced Yukio not to come with him, since the kidnapping note said Amiko would be immediately killed if Wolverine did not come alone. Amiko was swiftly and efficiently recovered, the kidnappers having grievously underestimated who they were dealing with.

Months later, Amiko was kidnapped (surely you are getting the pattern by now ?), this time by Omega Red and Lady Deathstrike and as a part of Sabertooth's systematic plan to kidnap a half-dozen close friends of Wolverine. Obviously outmatched, Yukio fought only briefly before being grievously wounded by Deathstrike's claws. Her spine was severely damaged, leaving her with little hope of recovery, and a kidnapping note was carved into her back. Yukio requested that, if it indeed turned out that she could never walk again, Wolverine kill her.

Mid-2000s

Yukio fully recovered from being seemingly crippled - either as a miraculous recovery or through unrevealed means (EDIT - a very recent Marvel clarification is that it was a miraculous recovery). Within a year, she was back to her acrobatic self. However it would seem that, around this general time frame, her relationship with Wolverine reverted to just being friends - and perhaps a bit less than that, since there seemed to be some coldness and awkwardness between the two.

Storm came to Japan to investigate a rumoured ring of mutant pit-fighters. She of course turned to Yukio to help her investigate, and their intel led them to discover the Arena, one such pit-fighting organisation, below a cutting edge discotheque. To Yukio's dismay, Storm decided to take over the whole business by becoming the champion of the Tokyo arena, using the rules and traditions of the mutant pit-fighting community to gain authority and power.

As Yukio feared, this all turned out to be a trap, run by the ex-Morlock Masque. Masque nearly broke Storm and tried twice to brainwash her into killing Yukio as a test, but the former Kenyan goddess once again proved indomitable. With the help of another ex-Morlock now in the pit-fighting business, Callisto, Storm and Yukio put an end to Masque's cruel and greedy reign over the gladiators. Storm stayed at Yukio's place for a few days before she had to go back to the US to support the X-Men.

As Amiko continued to grow up (going from a rebellious phase to a mysterious-and-aloof-to-get-attention phase, and now looking about 15), Yukio heard about the location of an invaluable Japanese necklace, and stole it from the heavily-guarded temple that held it. The necklace, the Mark of Mana, seemed to be telepathically talking to her ; creeped out by this, Yukio asked for advice from Wolverine, who took her to a Tokyo mystical expert he knew. This resulted in an attack by warrior monks serving the evil sorceress Ashurado, and the death of the occultist.

Being marked for death by the Ashurado monks, Yukio hit the mattresses, staying in contact with Wolverine who took a more forward role in investigating what was going on. As Wolverine fought in a war between two ancient sorcerous orders, Yukio and Amiko were found by his enemies through mystical means and -- you'll never guess that one -- captured to serve as a bargaining piece. The winged demons that took them dropped them at the Bridge of Six Realms, a mystical locus where the final battle was taking place, but Logan tricked the demons and destroyed them.

Immediately after this victory, Amiko picked the Sword of Blood, the katana symbolising the soul of the Shosei sect who had fought alongside with Wolverine. After she casually mentioned the sword speaking to her in her mind, the last Shosei priestess came to conclude they were kin - and an investigation confirmed that Mrs. Kobayashi, Amiko's biological mother, was indeed a former member of the Shosei. As the priestess, Yukio and Logan discussed the matter with Amiko, the young woman decided that becoming the miko of the Shosei would fit both with the heritage of her blood mother and the temperaments of her adoptive parents, Logan and Yukio.

Yukio has not been seen since.

Description:

Yukio usually wears some sort of black jumpsuit, or some approximation of it using street clothes. Though this is very basic, there has been a lot of variation in the details.

Personality

Yukio traditionally had one spectacular personality trait - her ardent wish to enjoy life to the fullest makes her a paragon of the Thrill of Adventure Motivation. She would deliberately puts herself in deadly situations and was avidly (and successfully) trolling for fights, excellent hard liquor, sex with dangerous men, crazy stunts, hardcore partying and the like. This philosophy about life is fairly easy to explain (see the quotes), which is a good thing since she often has to.

Though it would be easy to reduce her to being an adrenaline-fueled nutbar, Yukio has always been a bit more complex than that. Though she's a renegade genuinely living outside of society (as a mercenary with extensive underworld connections), she has a moral code of her own. For instance, while she never hesitated to kill adults (especially those whom she doesn't like), she obviously disapproves of violence done toward children and teenagers. She's hard, cynical and violent, but she's not evil. Yukio occasionally has flashes of common sense, and never was *completely* nuts.

Though Yukio doesn't usually form personal bonds, when she does those are very strong, such as her love for Wolverine or her friendship with Storm. Her relationship with Storm is extremely strong and empathetic - why it is so was never convincingly explored, so it's possible that it just is, without a reason. Yukio usually calls Storm " 'Ro".

It's a bit hard to determine at most points whether Yukio and Wolverine are lovers - I've tried to track that in the History section based on clues from dialogue and body language. But even at some points where they were probably not lovers, they evidenced an affectionate attitude (they would occasionally hold hands, stay in close physical contact, stroke each other's face, etc.). Their relationship has likely always been ambiguous, informal and living in intermediate states, but that was never really explored.

Yukio is extremely loyal toward Wolverine and Storm, and will aid and assist any ally of theirs as a matter of personal honour - even Gambit if she must.

With Amiko's presence and the discovery that Yukio enjoyed her role as a foster mother, the Wild One became considerably more sensible and reponsible. Though certainly not a Mrs. Beaver clone and still lacking in the bourgeois common sense department, her quasi-suicidal vibe is basically gone. She's still a sort of punk, mercenary and reckless troubleshooter, mercenary and party girl -- but she's also an unconventional mother. As years went by, she became more and more sensible about what Amiko should be allowed to do - though she continued to train her, since those techniques were clearly useful in protecting them.

DC Universe History:

DC's Japan is quite underpopulated and having Yukio around wouldn't change much. Being the foster mum of the big bad man's adoptive daughter being a significant aspect, she could have a similar relationship with Deathstroke the Terminator. Yukio would also likely secretly be a former member of the League of Assassins.

 

Writeup completed on the 9th of April, 2010.

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