Shogun Aina

* Wrestling Attire
* Chibi

**Shogun Aina** (Birth Ai Natsushiro) is a professional wrestler currently signed to the Waifu Wrestling Alliance.

## Initial Sign-Up Bio

Aina was a delicate shrine maiden who received visions of a greater calling one fateful night that she believe came from the heavens. Her mission? To purge the wicked with her own two hands. She trained and trained late into the night, and once she felt ready, took a leave of absence from her shrine to compete in the WWA. She proudly displays her beautiful body, as it too is a gift from above, and plans to enlighten the audience and her opponents to the mystical with her victories. It can't be helped: the WWA needs some divine intervention!

## Extended Backstory

Ai Natsushiro was born on July 8th, 1999, and lived a unremarkable childhood. She was a smart girl of her own volition, being particularly fascinated with her country’s history and the mythological since an early age. It wasn’t until the age of 13 that her parents revealed that the Natsushiro family bloodline was highly spiritual, and that most of the family worked as priests or otherwise devoted themselves to faith around this age.

While Ai’s parents got away from that to embrace modernity, they were obligated by creed to tell her the truth, and asked if she would want to take up that role herself. And so, she did; mostly for curiosity than anything else. For a decade did she serve as a miko at the Togakushi Shrines, and it was there that her interest into shintoism developed into full-blown following of the entire faith. So dedicated was she to the kami that she made it a promise to polish and answer the prayers of all five shrines every day. The hike between all of them is incredibly long, and it would be especially tiring for a delicate young girl. However, she fulfilled her promise, carrying out the prayers of any visitors she met, while still receiving schooling at a local village no less.

From there, her life became one of tradition: she’s a “yamato nadeshiko,” tried and true. And yet, this same graceful young woman has an eye for war. Not only had she taken a great interest in ninjitsu, the code of the samurai, and various martial arts, she’s also directly battled spirits and demons, exorcising all forces that would dare taint the shrines. Some rumors state that the only reason she hasn’t wed with a man is because she’s *too* relentless, although according to her, it’s because her work isn’t done yet.

Three years before her joining the WWA, she received a vision telling her that it was time to grow stronger. That it was time to take her interests in combat into the heart of another place, and wrestle with the great evils of another world. She took that literally, training for years and years and honing her already athletic body even further while learning all sorts of techniques. On her final days of training, she trekked up Mount Togakushi, and faced many trials as she climbed, including wrestling with an oni and making it submit at the peak. In that moment, she knew she was ready.

Quite a few details of her life are still unknown, but she seemed unwilling to talk about them or jumped to another topic quickly. More information is needed.

## Professional Wrestling Career

### Professional Wrestling Style and Persona

Submission and high-speed momentum based attacks. When she's not flinging herself from ropes and corners, she's squeezing and stretching her opponent and contorting them into occasionally lewd holds, slowly wearing them down. Lots of risk that comes from using easily telegraphed maneuvers, but the reward comes from successfully cashing it out after wearing down her opponent's body by turning herself into a human projectile.

### History

Shogun Aina left her shrine to join the WWA, and has mostly been training through the WWA Dojo since. Throughout her time, she has ran into the following people:

### Bishamonta and Yuki-hime: Dance with the Devils

Shogun Aina, having only met oni in negative capacities, was baffled when she saw Bishamonta and her sister Yuki-hime in the WWA hallways, the latter freshly prepared for in-ring competition. To Shogun, all onis were rotten to the core, demons that hungered only for flesh and chaos. She effectively waged a war against both, and at Bishamonta’s encouragement, sent Yuki-hime forth to fight Shogun and make her sister’s skill known. Their singles match was later collapsed into the 8-Woman Battle Royale, in which…

…well, the two didn’t get the chance to touch each other at all. Yuki-hime was eliminated first and swiftly, while Shogun was later eliminated by Steeli. Bishamonta’s strict training and the humiliation from her loss made Yuki-hime snap, awakening a new identity that was a far cry from the sleepy, burger-loving blue oni she was before: she was now Daimaou, an empress of death. On Shogun’s end, she received a call from one of her shrine’s head priests, who scolded her and informed her the two onis were allied to the kami as well. Feeling great shame, Shogun went to make amends…only to find Bishamonta in her sister’s place, ready to make Shogun atone through combat.

Shogun overcame Bishamonta, debuting her finisher Hallowed Hell to make the War Goddess tap. After exchanging words and significantly improving their terms, “Daimaou” came to mock her sister’s defeat and further threaten Shogun Aina, promising to break her as she would everyone else in the league. Shogun showed little fear, vowing to bring “Daimaou” back to her duties as a shrine maiden. While Daimaou continues to search for fresh meat, she keeps her eye on Shogun and threatens to attack her at any moment. Shogun will need to act soon: for every second Yuki-hime remains in this form, Hokkaido's weather churns and threatens to consume the city...

Daimaou would later taunt Shogun about her "loss" in the Rookie Cup tournament, striking right as her patience was hitting the breaking point. With her Rookie Cup run concluded, she had all the time in the world to focus on Daimaou...but the Empress encouraged her to come after her IMMEDIATELY in a backstage brawl, which Shogun obliged without thinking. She managed to overcome the Empress, walking away having relieved her stress...and then she tripped on a water bottle, which Daimaou had been relentlessly chugging in an attempt to increase her weight to prevent Shogun from whisking her back to her shrine and turning her back to normal.

It was here Shogun realized she had a golden opportunity to finish things now: with the help of Onigiri's rice giving her strength, she whisked Daimaou out of the Dojo and moved north onto Biei, ready to bring her back to her shrine of origin and to her sister Bishamonta, hopefully bringing peace to her once and for all...

### Holly Hope-Again: Hope Springs Eternal

Shogun had the “pleasure” of running into Holly Hope-Again during one of her days training at the dojo, and asked her for a spar. While Holly accepted and talked her usual big game, Shogun managed to do quite well, even locking Holly in a tight submission hold…well, almost tight. Holly, flustered at the idea of anyone at the dojo performing better than her, raged and writhed, slipping out of the hold and storming off in a rage. Shogun, concerned, wondered if she was possessed…

In the locker room, Holly vowed vengeance against Shogun, somehow, someway. As Shogun saw more of Holly’s bragging and her interactions with Ranger Rabbit leading up to (and after) Showdown in Spaghetti Town, she began to dread the idea of Holly Hope-Again being the top star of the dojo based on her attitude alone. While she respects Holly’s strength and determination, she believes that she needs to humble herself; which Shogun plans to do by meeting her in the ring, eventually.

Despite this, the two manage to get along surprisingly well--as well as anyone could with Holly Hope-Again. Though they disagree on certain matters (such as Karna, see below), Holly seems to at least tolerate Shogun because of her strength and the fact that Shogun understands Holly's not looking for friendship, but rivals (that aren't vaguely European girls that talk about justice and planets all day). Raging mid-workout after her loss to Amy Flame, Shogun interrupted Holly and asked for some assistance in training. The Argentinian, still bitter, did at least agree to doing so, specifically so Shogun could win the cup and Holly could humble her.

However, Shogun "lost" to Karna, which disappointed Holly, who hadn't seen the match live since she was sick. When she recovered, she later came down to the ring both to mock the Divine Angels with a passing comment at how the first round Rookie Cup losers were "failures." Frustrated, Shogun came out to both request a rematch with Karna, and fight Holly. Interrupting was Sapphire, who had been headbutted by Holly the previous day. In tow with Lucy Lincoln, they proceeded to attack Holly. Shogun ran into the ring to protect her, resulting in the an impromptu tag match between the Divine Angels and the rookies.

Holly and Shogun loss, with Lucy getting the pin on Holly with Sapphire cutting off any chances of Shogun breaking the pin. As Shogun came to and woke up on the outside, she'd see Nikki Kade enter from the audience, who put a chair beneath Holly's head and performed the Kade Krusher. Despite their spotty history, Shogun was horrified and enrage, shouting and screaming after the Divine Angels before helping Holly out and getting her medical attention.

### The Rookie Cup and Karna: The Refs Must Be Insaiyan

Shogun signed herself up for the Rookie Cup, seeing the opportunity to become a figurehead in the dojo in an attempt to bring more unity to it. It is partially to atone for her actions against the oni sisters, but also because she genuinely doesn’t want a dojo where the cruelest lord over the others and breed progressively more selfish and twisted rookies that eventually enter the WWA.

Her first match of the cup had her paired against Karna, a Saiyan ex-PMC who's an acquaintance of the tag team War Horse. Karna was an ex-dojo member who left due to the abuse from trainers and lack of support from her fellow members. Shogun had never ran into the girl or seen this abuse herself, but upon overhearing it was true after a training session one day, she voiced her displeasure by actively talking back against a trainer and cutting off training to do what Karna had done: nothing but menial tasks.

Shogun would later cut a promo before the cup, reaching out to Karna and sympathizing with her; not only that, but requesting she come back to the dojo. Karna responded, firmly refusing: she had to show the dojo that she didn't need it, and would do so by winning the cup. Though Shogun hoped the fight would change her mind, even if it didn't, at least it would be a chance to give the girl the fair shot she deserved.

The match happened, and though it was back and forth, Karna began to get the upper-hand, relentlessly mounting Shogun and landing many unanswered strikes. Though Shogun wasn't finished yet, as Karna pinned her after another string of punches, Shogun got her foot up on the rope. Unfortunately, the referee didn't see it, and Karna was declared the winner of the match. Karna, high energy, did not hear Shogun call out to her, and the referee simply ignored Shogun's complaints.

[TO BE CONTINUED]

## In-Ring

#### Finishing Moves

* Hallowed Hell (Hell’s Gate)
* Wheel of Fortune (360 Shooting Star Press)

#### Signature Moves

* Poisonrana
* Shotgun Dropkick (typically off the ropes)
* Running Hip Attack / Rear View
* Butterfly DDT

## Trivia

* Shogun Aina's name is a pun based on the Japanese phrase "shouganai na", which translates to something like "it can't be helped, right?" Shogun herself tends to use the phrase frquently.
* Shogun carries exuberant amounts of salt with her, purely for the sake of purifying and warding off spirits. She'll occasionally sprinkle it around the ring before a match in order to protect herself and her opponent, or throw it down at the feet of someone she's talking to for both their sakes.
* Shogun carries a hand fan with her at all times; she's had it ever since her days as a shrine maiden, and it's in pristine condition despite the decade's worth of use.