Sakio Higashikata

Sakio's only third person appearence in Shattered Memories 1

Type 100,

Bazooka (Temporarily)

> ***"As I sit in this truck bed looking at my allies as we drive towards our uncertain destiny in the jungles of our Homeland, I know the men I have met I would not know by the time this war was over."*** -Sakio Higashikata's journal entry, April 12th, 1942.
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Sakio Higashikata is a major supporting character. He is the main protagonist of Josuke Higashikata's (And Gappy in an alternative universe) visions Black Mesa calls "Shattered Memories". He is Josuke Higashikata's maternal great grandfather who served in World War II and The Japanese - American War as a Private and later Private First Class with the Imperial Japanese Empire.

## Personality

Sakio is shown to be a very soft spoken and intelligent man. But thinks very rambunctiously, something he is scolded for throughout the Shattered Memories story. This wildcard behavior would be very reminiscent in his great grandson, Josuke.

## Appearence

Sakio’s face is never seen in Shattered Memories, but from the only third person appearance of him that is seen, he has jet black hair and is skinny. After he is captured by a United States Marine at the end of Shattered Memories 3 and tortured at the start of Shattered Memories 4, the marine says “Pretty brown eyes you got, too bad I have to cut em’ out.” Telling us the only other confirmed feature of his face.

## Biography

### Shattered Memories 1

In Shattered Memories 1 it begins with Sakio and a small battalions of snipers approaching slowly towards a small group of U.S Soldiers within a Japanese swamp, their commander, Sergeant Tokiwama, giving them a pep-talk before revealing it was Sakio’s first battle as a Private, he would enthusiastically give Sakio the right of shooting the first shot to the debate of Private First-Class Hierose, who says he normally starts the first shot, Tokiwama says that Sakio needs to get used to the gun in his hand and shuts down the First Class’s further debate. Sakio is questioned if he knows who the first target is and he answered the radio-holder, which is correct to the appeasement of Tokiwama.

Sakio would walk up to the bush in front of them and point his barrel through it, as the US Radio-Holder walked to the swamp they were in to urinate, before he notices the glimmer of the scope and yells “RAGTIME” as he is shot in the head by Sakio and gunfire emerges from both the small group they were originally fighting and now several others within the tree line. Sakio would fall backwards into the swamp water and nearly drown from shock before Tokiwama pulled him up, revealing that everyone but Tokiwama, himself and Hierose were the last of the original group. They moved forward and took out the rest of the soldiers before going back to the Japanese camp.

At the camp Tokiwama would speak to Captain Iulmura about the advancement of the American forces and eventually convince him to take the rest of their forces deeper into the jungle to push back the forces, disobeying the orders from the general the Captain received. The group moved forward and were met by an even larger group of United States Infantry and even a Tank. The Japanese forces would be blown up or shot and killed by the United States infantry but kept moving forward, Sakio killed a U.S explosives holder and managed to get ahold of a Bazooka, to the dismay of both the Captain and Sergeant. He fought his way to the tank and eventually destroyed it with several shots from the Bazooka. After returning to the rest of the Japanese forces and the Captain and Sergeant, he was given praise and relief, the tank was destroyed and they could move in further. The scene ending and cutting back into Josuke waking up from Shattered Memories 1.