Yoshino

Lead Class Tester Guru

Aqworlds Bug Archknight Trainer

Glitch Catcher

Aqworlds Dev

Assistant Game Lead

Aqworlds 2D tester

 Biography

The legend of Yoshino and Asuka is well and alive in Lore. Many Heros seek out the legendary duo to be given bricks of gold, endless wealth, or at least that's how the story goes. The actual story is much different, and how the two met is quite intriguing.

Yoshino once was was a typical Water Fairy. Growing up in the ways of the Water Fairy culture, learning to live as a gentle and rule abiding creature. But, Yoshino was very different. They was curious about what was beyond the forest, tired of the excessive rules placed upon him.”You mustn't venture beyond the forest, the humans are possessed with greed and lack morals! Never go to the human city!” their mother would say to him whenever they'd ask about it.

### Leaving home

One day, around the age of 130 (Faeries on average live to be around 20,000 years old) they decided they would venture beyond the forest. Yoshino put on a brown robe to cover their wings, and headed off to the main city, where the humans lived.

As Yoshino entered the city, wild smells invaded their nostrils. Smells that made their stomach gurgle. Everyone was walking fast, and she was constantly being bumped into,everyone lacked respect. Not even receiving apologies for it. As she strolled along, she smelled something, unsure of what it was.

Yoshino followed their nose, and found himself in front of a building called “Butter, butter, and more butter.” They pushed open the doors and walked inside. At that moment, she saw a yellow, creamy substance, and jumped into a giant container of it. They bathed in the butter, and was eating it extremely fast, consuming half the barrel in mere seconds. “THIEF!” a man shouter. Yoshino was unfamiliar with the term, and continued eating. A man walked out with a gun, Yoshino had no idea what a gun even was. Without a warning, -BOOM- a shotgun shell hit him torso.

### The lifesaver

Yoshino laid there, bleeding out. She was flashing in and out of existence, struggling to stay conscious. A hooded figure ran into the door, and waved his hand at the man, who disintegrated into rainbow colored ashes. The hooded figure grabbed Yoshino, and scurried out the door.

Yoshino awakes sitting in the forest, the same yellow and creamy substance she was eating earlier was now covering his wounds. “How am I alive” asked Yoshino. “You’re alive because I saved you, you Nincompoop.” Asuka explained that he had a dream that this would happen, and he followed the path the dream led him on.

Yoshino is curious what Asuka is wearing under the robe, but doesn't say it out of respect. “I know what you’re thinking, why the robe. Well, under this robe, i'm extremely disfigured. Long story” Asuka says. Asuka takes off the robe, and underlies a morph of a half human, half horse like creature.

### Asuka

Asuka explains that when he was a younger man, he relentlessly seeked power. It was his dream to become the most powerful wizard to ever exist. On his adventures, he encountered a group of magical ponies, each having a individual and unique power. he sought to possess their powers, creating a device that would allow him to steal it, he stole all of their powers. It brought him great power, but at a costly price. Asukas very being was changed and molded, and their souls inhabited his body. He was morphed into a half pony half man creature.

### The magic of butter

Yoshino asks about the butter covering his wounds. “Oh, I infused a piece of butter with very powerful magic. It mainly has healing properties, but it is infused with other magic that is potentially harmful. Don’t worry, it's only a small amount going into your bloodstream, the side effects are temporary.” While Asuka was explaining, what it was, Yoshino shoved the entire butter stick into his mouth. Asuka simply nods his head. Yoshino is then surrounded by a yellow aura, and all of the tribal water marks on him turn yellow. His outfit also turns yellow. Yoshino can feel the butter substance in his very being, and finds she can manipulate it to his liking. But a major side effect hits him, his mind is clouded. All they can see is everything made of butter. Similar to being blind and seeing through sound, all they can see is butter. The substance is their obsession, they is mad over it.

As time went on, Yoshino learned how to completely manipulate the substance, and produce it from his very fingers. In soon time, Yoshino and Asuka became partners.Their favorite hobby was trolling heroes. They would often encounter heros wandering in the forest and give them a dubious task. When the task was completed, they would offer the hero's “statues of gold” The heroes willingly completed the tasks, only to learn that their reward was to be turned into a golden statue… made of butter. The two had many adventures together, and were never without one another. They are currently battling their arch nemesis, Captain Flour and his sidekick, the Duckinator.

## AE Lore

### AQWorlds Lore

Yoshino's character has a minor feature in AQWorlds in the item of Yoshino's Citrine which is a gemstone that can be obtained in PvP. The Magical Butter Stick of Power is also a reference to them.

In September 2018 the Emerald and Water Fairy Wings were added as drops of the Slugbutter monster in honor of Yoshino's birthday.

## Fun Facts

* Loves Butter
* Night owl and watches Twitter being quiet 90% of the time
* Relates to Vanexsa
* Rates player's AQWorlds sets on Twitter for a badge.
* Created and leads the Artix Games Discord Server.

## Real life story

Yoshino joined Artix Entertainment in 2015 as a special exception, being picked from the community by Artix himself. Originally he would help Artix with PR, but Alina grabbed him from Artix hands and put Yoshino on the PTR testing team at the time.

While still doing PTR testing, Yoshino also joined the AQWorlds Class Tester team. Which was then led by Kervaal. Later on Cemaros also took interest in the young tester and made him Bug Tester when he wasn't testing classes.

When the AQ3D team arose early 2016, Yoshino persuaded Gjappy to help AQ3D testing too. But after figuring he would load too much work on himself he resigned from the AQ3D team shortly after. And then focussed on his other tasks, combined with additional stuff he did for the AQWorlds team like documentation and misc art.

Later in 2017-2018 a lot of the original class testers and class balance developers dropped out, including Kervaal and Arklen. As Pisces took over the lead of class development, Yoshino is honored with the task of being lead class tester until this day.