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 Name:
Himura Kenshin
Aliases:
Battousai
Age:
28
Birthdate:
June 20, 1849
Height:
5'2"
Weight:
107 lbs.
Hair:
Red
Eyes:
Violet
Blood
Type: AB
Before he
became a wandering rurouni, Kenshin was a young boy named
Shinta. Shinta's parents died when he was around the age
of eight in a cholera epidemic. A year later, Shinta was
bought by slave traders, who were soon attacked and killed
by a group of bandits. The young boy's life was saved
by his soon-to-be master, Hiko Seijuurou.
The name Kenshin
was given to Shinta by Hiko, feeling as though Shinta
was too weak of a name for someone who was about to learn
such an exclusive style of the sword. Kenshin trained
in Hiko's art, Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu, for less than a decade.
By time he reached his teenage years, after witnessing
the countless deaths from the battles between the Meiji
Government and renegades of the Tokugawa Era, Kenshin
felt the need to save people's lives and bring about change.
His way of thinking not only led him to tick Hiko off,
something his master would never forget, and leave his
training undone, but led him to become what he's most
famous for, taking on the name 'Battousai'.
Battousai
worked for the Choushou Clan led by Katsura Kogoro. His
skills as a hitokiri were so great, it made him the most
feared hitman in Japan. He killed people, mainly tyrants
of the Tokugawa Government, in order to create a world
where people can live without fear. One night, he had
killed a man named Kiyosato Akira, finacé of Yukishiro
Tomoe, who happened to be caught in the struggle when
Battousai was given the orders to carry out the assassination
of Shigekura Jubei. In this conflict, Battousai was scratched
for the very first time after taking up his role as a
hitokiri by Kiyosato on the cheek. The assassination of
Kiyosato led to a series of events, where Kenshin finally
ended up falling in love with the woman who's fiancé
he killed.
Unfortunately,
Battousai was trying to be killed off by those who supported
the current government. In a battle, Tomoe was killed
along with Battousai's opponent. Given to him by the woman
he fell in love with was another scar on his cheek, which
created the cross scar Kenshin would carry around for
quite some time.
After falling
into a slight depression, Battousai was called to return
to battlefield after months of hiding by Kogoro himself.
Dozens of battles were fought, and leading the way was
Battousai, still fighting for the goals he had wanted
to see acheived from the beginning. Over a little more
time, the Tokugawa Government fell and gave rise to the
new Meiji Government. Battousai then disappeared into
the shadows.
Battousai
had become a rurouni, traveling under his original name,
atoning for the sins he comitted as a promise to Tomoe.
He vowed never to kill again with a sword, thus wielding
a Sakabatou, a reversed bladed sword, a gift to him forged
by the legendary blacksmith Arai Shatku. The legend of
the man that helped create the Meiji Government is well
known. One day, while walking through the streets of Tokyo,
he had encountered Kamiya Kaoru, whom he later married
and even had a son with. It was time the ruoruni to stop
traveling. Kenshin had not intended to do so, but he stayed
in Tokyo with Kaoru at her Kamiya Dojo to help bring revive
the good name of the Kamiya Kasshin Ryuu. Friendships
were forged, most importantly with Myoujin Yahiko and
Sagara Sanosuke. Every so often, people tried to challenge
Kenshin, aware that he was the Hitokiri Battousai, to
prove their worth. The only person so possessed to defeat
Kenshin was Shinomori Aoshi.
Not only has
Kenshin halted petty crimes and saved people's lives,
but he even saved the Meiji Government from being taken
over by Shishio Makoto. Kenshin has that personality where
he meets a person, then immediately makes friends with
them. For a man that was once Japan's best assassin, Kenshin
is very kind and understanding. Whenever a loved one,
or in fact, anyone, is in danger, that is the only time
Kenshin gets serious. At times, the hitokiri side of the
rurouni would show. Udou Jin'e and Saitou Hajime were
the only two that were able to bring out Kenshin's dark
side, but Kenshin learned how to prevent himself from
reverting after overcoming Shishio.
Sooner or
later, the past would come to haunt Kenshin. Yukishiro
Enishi, the brother of Tomoe, returned to Japan after
many years to get his revenge on the man who killed his
sister. Enishi created a group of fighters that all shared
the same hatred as himself. The task of carrying out 'Jinchuu'
was at hand. Because of Enishi's haneous plan and Gein's
trickery, Kenshin fell into a state of depression, but
soon got out of it once he learned that he still had to
fight for just causes as long as he can wield his sword.
A resolution was reached once Kenshin defeating Enishi
with the Ama Kakeru Ryuu no Hirameki, Hiten Mitsurugi
Ryuu's succession technique.
The cross-scar
of Kenshin's lasted as a memory of the Bakumatsu for the
majority of time. It did not begin to fade away until
he had defeated Enishi. With the past slowly becoming
nothing more than memories, Kenshin passed on his sword
and ideals to Yahiko, who would keep the two until the
day Kenji, Kenshin and Kaoru's son, would reach the age
of understanding the principals of true strength.
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