Otsuchi Tsurugi

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**Otsuchi Tsurugi** is an Etheridgeon GTA Spano born from the love the Tsurugi triplets, Chokuto, Makibishi, and Kodachi have for one another in the form of fusion. Otsuchi is named after their namesake weapon, an edo period warhammer. Otsuchi's weapon is bulky and takes up space, which packs a wallop with every hit.

## Backstory

Otsuchi was born six years after the triplets in a bandit raid. The Tsurugi triplets, although six years old at the time, had the ability to fight from an early age thanks to the training they received from their grandmother, Tachi. Although the triplets were successful, the bandits had separated the family from outside help. Exhausted of their mana, the family could at least face the end together. In that moment of love, the triplets fused into a fed up, furious fusion later named Otsuchi.

Their mallet was enough to turn the tide of battle and let their family, and the village, live to see another day.

## Personality

While Otsuchi is a fusion of the triplets, and thus has the humorous personality of the triplets, they have a hard time knowing when to be serious outside of their life and others' being in danger. Otherwise, they're not prone to anxiety like their older sisters and components, Kodachi and Makibishi, even in cases where even a small amount of fear would keep them safe. Otsuchi, however, inherited Makibishi's bubbly personality and Kodachi's love for plants, and has a fair amount of talent when it comes to cooking.

However, because their abilities are not as powerful, it has led them to become self conscious. Although their parents and older siblings/components have been nothing but absolutely supportive, they're easily able to become down on themself on account of not having the firepower to warm up a space like Chokuto, or heal wounds and swim gracefully underwater like Makibishi, and even their own phasing ability inherited by Kodachi isn't as refined. When in battle with their namesake weapon, however, their insecurities seem to melt away as they gladly bash in obstacles of any kind with just one whack. They're also impulsive, as they won't hesitate to give something a whack and relies on someone else to reign in their hammer happy tendencies.

Otsuchi has a degree of ingenuity, and has been found to use their mallet for tasks other than combat, like construction work and helping out in the coal mines (provided they're attached with a pick attachment if they wish to avoid another cave-in). They've used it to create large air bubbles under water by heating it up, or cooling themself off using the other side where the water mana is stored. Despite this, Otsuchi has a clumsy streak, as their tendency to impulsively show off or whack something (or someone) tends to leave them vulnerable against quick opponents (swinging themself into the ground), immoveable objects (they'll jolt themself), or being outweighed by the mallet itself (when showing off, they have a chance of clumsily throwing it instead, which has caused property damage before).

## Relationships

#### Tsurugi Triplets

They adore their older siblings, wanting to be everything like them and to make them proud. Their general relationship with them is full of love, which is natural, as their very existence is powered by the siblings' bond. They wish to deepen their bond when Hana can come up with a way for the fusion to become a separate, physical form without relying on the siblings getting in sync.

## Abilities

* **Fire Manipulation -** Although Otsuchi's firepower isn't as strong as Chokuto's, Otsuchi is still capable of turning up the heat in the kitchen and on the battlefield. They can coat one side of their namesake weapon in flames, bestow pyrokinetic energy to another's weapon, and cook some of the best food known to the Etheridge Collective.
	+ **Enhanced Culinary/Baking -** Since they can control heat to the same degree as Chokuto, they can whip up sweet cupcakes or serve a hot dish of chicken that'll get to your heart faster than you can digest their food.

* **Improvisation -** Otsuchi is quick on their feet and can think of a plan in the last minute, such as using their latent fire ability to breathe air bubbles under water, or lightly tap someone's wound (if small enough) with the water mana side of their namesake weapon to heal it.
* **Water Manipulation -** Being a component of Makibishi, Otsuchi inherited her water manipulation ability, although their power and skill aren't as much as their older sister's/component's. They can pack a wallop with the water mana in their namesake weapon, which proves effective against opponents that use or are made of fire.
	+ **Aquatic Adaptation -** Otsuchi can adapt to aquatic environments, and thus can hold their breath as long as Makibishi can. What they struggle to do like her, however, is maintain focus underwater. They're more likely to grab a random lobster than the seashells they were looking for. They're able to adapt to high pressures and colder than usual water temperatures.
	+ **Healing water -** Although they cannot heal major damage, they can heal aches, pains, and other minor injuries using, ironically, their namesake weapon. Depending on their love and respect for the person they're healing, they can either administer a light tap of the water mana side of the mallet, or whack them. Both actions accomplish the same goal.

* **Seventh Dimensional Phase Jump -** Otsuchi, just like Kodachi, can phase long distances. Unlike their older sister/component, Otsuchi's phase ability costs a lot of mana. While it wouldn't matter in an every day situation, they have to think carefully about using it in combat. They require the use of Phase Zones, special zones that appear in Etheridge and a select few other worlds, that reappear and disappear in different areas every decade, to accomplish Phasing. Like Kodachi, they find that their ability is rendered useless in worlds that lack Phase Zones or when there's water underfoot.
* **Hammer Proficiency -** Otsuchi wouldn't be Otsuchi without their namesake weapon, an edo-period warhammer that's capable of storing fire and water mana, and whacking objects and opponents when the situation calls for it.

## Trivia

* Otsuchi inherited Makibishi's love for stickers, as their namesake weapon is *covered* in them, themed after their shared interests, hobbies, their personality, and even some handmade stickers of their older siblings.
* They take turns with Kodachi taking care of the various houseplants in the Ryokan.
* Every once in a while, they'll leave kind notes behind for their older siblings.
* Being a combination of Arashi's aunts and father, as well as being a whole relative in and of themself, they have a soft spot for her, and will do everything to protect her and keep her happy.
* Curiously, they're a Spania GTA Spano, unlike their siblings and components who are AE86s and a Subaru, and there are no other cars like them in the family. Tachi Tsurugi, a knowledgeable record keeper of the family's genealogy, has theorized that the sheer magnitude of Otsuchi's mana from being fused together from other components that have a lot of mana, had to force the combined Badge to adapt into a core that can naturally store that much mana. In other words, it was biological adaptation at work.