Yato

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## Physical Information

Yato is a fighter, participating in the Ministry Succession Tournament. He fights Shen Solomon Grewlwind in preliminaries.

## Appearance

Yato is middle-aged man, wearing simple kimono with sun pattern.

## Personality

Yato isn't the most friendly individual, although he’s willing to joke around, whenever it’s himself or his enemy, he’s ready to slice you up if you behaved foolishly. His speech pattern resembles 80's Japanese movies which he found rather enjoyable. He loves biker-culture, sake and associates with Yakuza culture. More or less he gets along with Bernice/Shen due to(Biker and love of fighting/war crimes), Ari(Biker and Yakuza appreciation) and Hanzo(Fellow Japanese warriors.) He's also a 'grandfather' for Hanzo's children while also more or less having soft spot for Hanzo and considering him a son.

## History

Yato was born in the Sengoku period, he was a child of irrelevant parents in some impoverished village, being abandoned at a young age and adopted by Ronin(Musashi) who gave him his name(Yato). He was trained in the art of war from a young age and lived on the battlefield where he developed his bloodlust. Soon he became a soldier of Oda clan and fought under Oda Nobunaga, who let him wreak havoc on enemies of Oda clan. Yato soon became called God of War, due to the prowess he had on the battlefield. Shortly after Oda Nobunaga death, he also was killed but he didn’t die without fighting, he killed almost the whole squad who was after him and would have killed the final member if not for the fact that lead in his body made him feel a bit too heavy, his body was riddled with the gunshot wounds, Yato final death wish was to reincarnate as Asura and live his life battling to his heart content. The one to recruit Yato was Shen as he had been lacking challenge and wanted to experience thrill for once. So he ventured to Helheim and fought Yato, they both acknowledged each others as warriors and stalemated as the duel was interrupted by bunch of Asura's, after defeating Asura's, Yato followed Shen and became official Ministry member.

## Abilities

**Divine Stamina:** As a human, he fought endlessly on the battlefield. Same could be said during his time in Helheim.

**Divine Strength:** While his strength during his lifetime was impressive enough, he became way stronger in Helheim, fighting demonic beings and defeating them with

**Weapon Mastery:** The training he got from Musashi and countless battlefield fights polished his mastery to the utmost limit.

**Telekinesis:** Ability he gained in Helheim, after trying to call sword back to him, now he uses this ability in conjunction with weapon creation. He's able to fly with ease since the time he fought with the Shen

**Weapon creation:** Ability he gained in Helheim, Yato lost his weapons and having nothing to fight with, he wished for weapons to appear and he got the spear in his hand. His weapons are break more the further they are from him. He can create thousands of weapons from the Sengoku period at once(Yes, it’s limited to the Sengoku period, he can’t create nukes or anything more advanced.)

**Vajra state:** State he subconsciously developed due to his love of fighting. Even if his tendons/muscles are destroyed he will move forward, even if his senses are taken away he will still "see" his enemy.

## Equipment

During his life-time he wore standard Samurai armor, which protected him well from injury. When he was in Helheim he didn't need armor anymore as his skin was much more durable and he was much faster anyways. He isn't that attached to the weapons as he treats them as tools. Nothing more or nothing less than that.

## Techniques

He doesn't call out his technique names because he isn't weeb. It's only named for writer.

**Ame-Ya***(Rain of Arrows)*: Yato creates myriad of arrows and lets them rain on his opponent

**Jūsatsu-tai***(Firing Squad)*: Yato creates a few muskets, firing those bullets to overwhelm the enemy.

**Kushizashi***(Impalement)*: Bunch of spears, appear out of ground and impale opponent.

**En-ha***(Blade-circle)*: Few katanas are created and circle around the target before they attack a single target at once.

**Tanto-jūdan***(Dagger-bullet)*: Yato points a finger and fires a tanto incredibly quickly.

**Hōchō(***Cleaver***):** Yato creates a massive cleaver which crashes on enemies and destroys them.

**Kamishini**(*God-Killing*): Yato creates a nōdachi which rapidly expands its blade.

**Dokugane***(Poison Metal)*: Yato's secret technique, which he created after his fight with Shen in Helheim. By drawing blood from his opponent with one of his weapons, Yato administers a "poison" into their body. After a few moments, a weapon begins to grow out of the area where the target was struck, tearing apart their flesh. If the distance between Yato and his target becomes too great, the effects of the dokugane will leave the target's body.

**Senkei***(Slaughterscape):* Yato creates all weapons he knows and unleashes them all at once on the enemy. It is treated as his ultimate move, however he never had chance to unleash it during his fight with Shen.

## Trivia

* 3rd Japanese Character
* His moveset was inspired by Gin Ichimaru, Kuchiki Byakuya and Zaraki Kenpachi.
* He shares name with Main character of Noragami, a fictional god named Yatogami.