Hattori Seishu

Igawa Revolt Group

**Seishu** Hattori (葉取　**星舟**) was one of the strongest Taimanin of Gosha Village before the Igawa Revolt.

She was the Igawa clan's steward and chief elder, but after staging a coup d'état against her own son and daughter she disappeared without a trace. Seishu is the mother Igawa Senshu and Igawa Shuzen, Shuzen being the father of Asagi and Sakura, making her Asagi's grandmother.

Seishu is one of the bigger antagonists in Taimanin RPGX.

## Personality

Seichu is a cruel and selfish woman, filled with the desire to outlive everybody, including family. She is ruthless and shows little mercy to anybody that opposes her. Seichu is a manipulator and uses fear to control others, but if this fails will kill.

Her desire to control the Igawa clan and enforce her own will, regardless of the true clan head is strong enough to take out even family. While she normally keeps a stern or normal look, in battle her face shifts to a twisted grin of bloodlust.

She views Asagi's high potential as a risk to her own standing as the strongest Taimanin. Though not stated to have killed her son, she made it clear in her own thoughts that she will kill anybody, sons or daughters if they get in her way. She is feared by her daughter Igawa Senshu, who is afraid to be killed by her for not taking out Asagi. Seishu in turn views her daughter just as a tool or ignores her, as she rethinks her options.

It is possible, that her personality also mixed with Mine Funako in recent years but her hate and desire for revenge has not calmed down.

## Appearance

She is an old woman, over 80 years old even during the Igawa Revolt, but she looks like a girl in her early teens. She has almost white, violet hair and yellow eyes.

Furthermore, she wore a ninja costume with black and purple elements, until using the body of Mine Funako.

## History

### Background

A woman born around the **1990**s, she was known as one of the strongest Taimanin of the Igawa clan.

She learned the art of stargazing called "Uho". It originated from a technique said to have been introduced by King Yu, the founder of the Xia Dynasty in ancient China. This Ninja Art has kept her young and given her many abilities.

Seichu was the stewardess of the Igawa clan, the second in command after the clan patriarch and part of the Igawa Elders a faction within the family, which had much influence and power. Seishu had multiple children, but it isn't clear if with the same men, such as Igawa Shuzen and Igawa Senshu. She viewed both as tools for power and when Shuzen became clan head she remained in the background, still controlling most of the choices of the elder council. Seishu was very disliked by the Koukawa clan, which felt pushed by the elders to join Gosha and instead remained in their Koukawa village.

With the Fuuma Revolt, **2068**, a result of the Fuuma losing power to the Igawa and tried to take over. It were Seishu and more extreme factions of the Elders, which pushed for the total destruction of the Fuuma clan, even after the death of Fuuma Danjo, the instigator. Sending, the hound of the elders, Kono Reima to kill the 3-year-old Fuuma Kotaro, son of Danjo. However, Kotaro and his own stewardess Fuuma Tokiko, reached Seishu's granddaughter Igawa Asagi known for her historic peaceful negation with the Katou clan. Ordering Reima to stand down, Asagi, proclaimed that the Fuuma which dropped their weapons would be welcome into Gosha Village, which opposed Seishu's will.

She viewed Asagi and her own son Igawa Shuzen, who supported Asagi's actions as a danger to her power position in the Igawa clan. Two years after the Fuuma Revolt, when her son became Taimanin Chief Commander she murdered him and strong-armed her daughter Igawa Senshu to join her Igawa Revolt Group which, that with the support of some elders, planned to take out Asagi as well and put Seishu in control.

This Igawa Revolt, in **2070** tried to also blackmail Mizuki Shiranui and others to join in their fight against Asagi, but this backfired. As Shiranui took out Kono Reima and helped Asagi together with Yatsu Kuro to form a counter-attack. Her daughter was pushed back into the forest shrine base the group was staying at. Seichu once more threatened her daughter to fight or die. Asagi's group, which was supported by other Igawa clan members, Koukawa clan, leftovers of the Fuuma clan and Mizuki clan, joined forces and fought Seishu and her revolt group. Her daughter was defeated by Mizuki Shiranui and lost her arms and Seishu was defeated in a dual with Asagi. Seishu was hurt badly, with her injuries grave enough that people assumed she would die, even when she teleported away with her Ninja Art. However, she survived and left her daughter behind to be captured and taken to Amidahara Prison.

Seishu at this point was able to reach her secret contacts Kanda of the GSDF and David Dahl of Task Force G. Still damaged by her injuries, Seishu was given a new body thanks to secret technology, now using the body of Mine Funako; a high ranking military member and Internal Affairs Bureau leader. The host body, worked the same way as with Miranda Closet and Tekkain Bantetsu, who joined their ranks later. Supporting Kanda and Dahl, Seishu planned the assassination of Asagi by collecting forces and pawns. Seishu now as Mine, would not rescue her daughter from prison for many years, until she thought it was necessary and implanted a bomb in her to kill Asagi in any confrontation as an insurance.

### Timeline RPGX

As the Independent Rangers went on missions around **2082**, she became the secret instigator of multiple small conflicts with Gosha, under with the Internal Affairs Bureau which kept any direct involvement a secret. Including trying to make contact with a serial killer and the manipulation of Beast Kingdom, to create a cover for her daughter's escape from prison. Reforming the Igawa Revolt Group, Mine ordered the attack against Gosha but against her wishes Asagi survived. Even capturing her daughter, who realized her mother viewed her only as a disposable pawn.

In the year **2085,** With Mine's true identity revealed, thanks to the cooperation of her daughter Senshu she made her way to the Chinese Union embassy with her second in command Naito Arahiko. Lacking any alternative options, an operation was planned to put her mind back into her damaged old body, which Seishu viewed as being not ideal and even a betrayal. However, Gosha Taimanin arrived to intercept her, with Fuuma Saika, Fuuma Amane and supporters of the Beast Kingdom. Seishu tried to fight them but was in the end knocked out by Amane who damaged her body enough to make her harmless. Seishu was captured by Yamamoto Nobushige, and her current fate is at the moment not given further.

Her daughter later died, in **2086**, to a Hexenbiest Curse, with her reaction to it unknown.

## Powers/Abilities

**Main Weapon**: Katana

* **Ninja Arts: "Uho**" Multiple arts by using star signs. By walking in the shape of the constellations of the twenty-eight Chinese zodiac signs, or in other words, by taking special steps, he is able to perform various techniques. In order to perform some of these actions, she "dances" the star sign, as seen in some of her attack animations.
	+ "Hoshijuku" (星宿) The power to take the life energy of others and make it one's own. (Able to de-age herself)
	+ "Willow Inn" (Nurikoboshi) Summons a deformed viper.
	+ "Oniyado" (Tamaonoboshi) Possesses rigid power in himself.
	+ "Kabe Yado" (Namameboshi) Clothe yourself with a protective ward. The ward of the "walled in" that keeps bad things away from you.
	+ "Inameboshi" A technique that enables instantaneous movement over a short distance of about 50 meters.

* **Machine Body**: Mine Funako
* **Particle Control**: Taimanin are able to manipulate Taima Particles to enhance their physical strength, speed and defense. The particles are also used to counter demonic influences and strengthen damage to demons.

## Trivia

* It can be assumed that she is still alive and maybe was connected to the Internal Affairs Bureau caused revolt, in Amidahara Prison.
* Seishu's authority might also come across as a result of her daughter's name. Though she was given the Igawa family name of her father, Senshu does sound close to Seishu.
* The technology used on Seishu to switch bodies was the same as the one seen in Witch of Steel Annerose, with the cyborg Yamada Tarou.
* The Hattori family, historically, had separated from the Iga clan. How big the part of the Hattori family is in the Taimanin universe is not known.

## Gallery

Younger Igawa Asagi fighting Hattori Seishu during Igawa RevoltDefeated as Mine Funako, many years later.Revealing her true self