Hisako Ichiki

Ren Ichiki (Brother, deceased)

Hiro Sokuto (Maternal Uncle, deceased)

Salem Center, NY

## Background

### **1994 - 2008: Hisako Ichiki**

Hisako Ichiki is the only daughter & second child of Aito & Hisa Ischiki. Both of her parents were in the business world, leaving Hisako to spend most of her time with her brother Ren under the watch of her uncle Hiro. Hiro was the younger brother of her mother & played the stereotypical fun uncle role to perfection.

One day after school, Ren didn't attend school because he came down with the flu or something similar. Because he usually brought them home after school. her uncle Hiro came to pick her up instead. As they drove home, majority of the main streets were held up in traffic so Hiro decided to take some back roads to go around the traffic. While driving, another car behind them believed Hiro was driving to slow & tried to get around him on the one land road. The driver misjudged the distance between them & clipped the front of Hiro's car, leading to them spiraling out of control. Hiro died on impact but Hisako had generated a seemingly impenetrable psionic exoskeleton armor around her entire physical body, saving herself.

When the paramedics came, they were amazed by Hisako's survival & the fact that she had no scratches. When she explained what happened to her parents, they made her promise not to tell anyone about her powers as she could become a possible target for mutant-hating groups. To keep her out of harm's way, her parents sent her away to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning so that she could practice her powers & be herself freely.

### **2008 - 2009: Armor**

Upon enrolling at the Institute, Hisako decided on the codename Armor because of her powers. That same year, the Institute had implemented the training squads to better equip the students with their powers & Armor was placed in the Iceman's Excelsiors Squad. Placed on the same squad with her were Charles Xavier II (Graymalkin), Ruth Aldine (Blindfold) & Edward Tancredi (Wing), all who were the same age as her. Armor formed a close friendship with Wing & even described him as being her best friend.

At the end of school year at the Xavier Institute, Armor was present when the Purifiers attacked the school on the orders of William Stryker. Many of the students were incapacitated but Wing was hit with a gun that caused him to lose his powers. Talon soon slaughtered the remaining Purifiers, saving the students' lives. Depressed by the loss of his powers, he committed suicide in the Danger Room. After Wing's death, Armor also became depressed & promised to not follow in Wing's actions.

Armor then focused her time on training, to make herself better & help Excelsiors win the field day between the squads. While training with Wolverine, Armor's exoskeleton enlarged to mammoth-size. Hours later, Armor received a call from her father to inform her that her mother & brother had died in car accident. Taken back to to her uncle's death, Hisako broke down on the spot. Accompanied by Cyclops, Emma Frost & Wolverine, she returned to Japan to attend their funeral & reconnect with her distant father. Devastated, Hisako blamed herself for not being around to protect her family & believed that her father also blamed her.

While at the funeral, the X-Men secretly stepped away as the city was being attacked by the alien Fin Fang Foom. When Hisako heard the news, she made the decision to leave the funeral to go & help them. Her father was furious that she left the funeral until he saw her on TV & realized that Hisako managed to put aside her own grief to help friends. When she returned after the battle, he apologized for his behavior & told her that he was never more proud of her than now. Now that her issues with her father were solved, Hisako returned to the institute with the X-Men.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Mutant Physiology:** Armor can generate an enormously strong, powerful, durable & impenetrable psionic exoskeleton armor around her entire physical body. It can be further enhanced by drawing more power, energy & strength from the bloodline of her Japanese ancestors. This exoskeleton drastically enhances her strength, endurance, stamina, agility, invulnerability & durability, though she can only maintain it for short periods of time lest the effort leave her drained. In situations of extreme emotional stress, Armor can significantly enhance her exoskeleton's size, strength, agility, dexterity & durability, but she can only do so briefly as the strain can render her unconscious. The strength, power & size of her psionic armor greatly enhances & increases tremendously when her relatives die. In addition, the body armor greatly heightens & strengthens the concussive force behind her offensive & incredibly destructive blows & makes her practically invulnerable & immune from a significant degree of physical harm and damage. To some extent, she can shape her armor, such as her ability to form Wolverine-like claws & make them extend outward.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength*:** Her body armor greatly strengthens & amplifies the concussive force behind her unusually offensive & highly destructive blows. Her psionic armor grants her enough superhuman strength to lift a ground tank & punch someone through several walls of a building & even assisted Colossus in restraining a small ship.
	+ ***Enhanced Durability*:** The body armor is depicted as enveloping her completely & protects her from tremendously strong & powerful attacks & in some depictions, Armor's armor is strong & durable enough to survive the heat caused from a long fall through the atmosphere. Likewise, she is able to fully withstand the impact from falling to the ground from high up in the atmosphere without any physical or external injury.
	+ ***Concussive Blast*:** She can cause her armor to release a large, solid, concussive blast of energy but it takes a lot of concentration.
* **Hand to Hand Combat/Martial Arts:** Armor has received combat training from Wolverine.
* **Multilingualism:** She speaks fluent English & Japanese.
* **Tactical Analysis:** She has taken classes in tactics from Cyclops, earning one of the highest marks in the class.

### Weaknesses

* **Power Limitation**: Armor's psionic-energy exoskeleton armor is vulnerable to lasers as "it has to let light in" & to Adamantium due to its unique abilities & properties. For example, Wolverine's claws can penetrate her armor but he is not able to go through it with the rest of his body. She would only remain uninjured if the distance between her armor's perimeter & her body are slightly greater than the length of his claws.
* **Cost Of Power:** Her powers increase when a member of her family dies.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Strength:** 3 - Average / Basic to 6 - Expert / Advanced
* **Speed:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Occult:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Weapons:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Energy Projection:** 3 - Average / Basic to 4 - High / Trained
* **Strategy:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Fighting Ability:** 4 - High / Trained

## Trivia

* She is a member of The Forums social media network.
* Armor has a power ranking of 34, classifying her as Power Level 1 / Minimal Threat. When armored with her psionic exoskeleton, she has a ranking of 66 (Power Level 2 / Low Threat)

## Notes

* The original character of Hisako Ichiki belongs to the Marvel Universe.
* Hiro Sokuto is a character from the Marvel Universe that is a member of the Yakuza.