Oni

### Abilities

Elemental Masks (Fire, Ice, Lightning) Superhuman Physical Ability Blades to Shatter Samsara (Unleashed Ultimate)

### Weapon

Executioner's Sword (Fire) Swordspear (Lightning) Greatsword (Ice)

## Physical Description

### Height

10'1"

The Oni is a unique wraithsketeer that has lost its reasoning and sanity and has become closer to a wraith than a person. It wanders the streets of Lasoa Bay during night searching for battle.

## Appearance

The Oni is a large, bulky humanoid figure, standing just over 10 feet tall with a very muscular build. It still bears some resemblance to a human and masketeer. Aside from its humanoid form, it wears a white oni mask that has expanded to become something more like a helmet, and wears what appears to be a suit vest and tie, with a tattered coat as a cape. Apart from that, it looks completely wraith, with monstrous, clawed hands and almost beastial posture.

It either uses an executioner's sword, a greatsword or a swordspear in combat depending on which form it is currently taking, and the horns on its mask change color as well.

## Behavior

The Oni is a being seemingly made for battle. It moves entirely on instinct, searching for its next fight.

When not in combat, the Oni is relatively docile and slow. It aimlessly wanders the streets of Lasoa Bay with the sound of its loud footsteps and sword being dragged across the ground announcing its presence. It appears slothful, with its body hunched back and lazily dragging its weapon across the ground. In this state, its mask is monochromatic and no elemental energy can be felt from it.

When the Oni is approached or something enters its area of perception, it enters into frenzy and attacks with powerful, quick strikes. It mainly uses its sheer strength and power to overwhelm its opponents, opting for mainly close quarters engagements. It is adept in using different elements in combat, and switches between them to better defeat its opponent. In this state, the horns on its mask change color depending on which element it is currently using.

It ends its frenzied state when it fights what it considers to be a satisfying battle, becoming docile for the rest of the night when it does. Apart from that, the only other option is to stall it until sunrise.

## Abilities

The Oni is a monstrous opponent to face, and can easily overwhelm most things that are unlucky enough to encounter it.

* **Superhuman Physical Abilities** - The Oni boasts the strength of its namesake, easily breaking the ground beneath it by simply lunging. Not just strength, but also its speed and constitution are of beyond superhuman quality.
* **Superhuman Endurance** - The Oni is immensely durable, able to shrug off most attacks with ease. Even status conditions have a limited effect on it.
* **Aura of Fear** - As a natural consequence of its strength, its aura is one that sends the instinctual fear of death to those that feel it. It can choose to amplify its aura in a limited radius to cause its opponents to feel deep fear.
* **Elemental Masks** - The Oni is able to use the elements through its masks, each corresponding to a specific one. Each mask focuses on a specific fighting style, and changes the Oni's weapon along with the element.
	+ **Fire** - A form focused on offence through sheer strength. It is relatively the most well rounded of the three forms, and is the one most commonly used by the Oni.
		- **Executioner's Sword** - A type of sword focused mainly in chopping and dismembering opponents. It has a blunt tip, but has an extremely heavy blade with a sharp edge.
		- **Enhanced Strength** - The Oni's absurd strength is enhanced even further and lets it easily smash through concrete.
		- **Fire Manipulation** - The mask allows the Oni to create and manipulate fire, usually by wreathing the executioner's sword in flames to increase its attack power. It can also send waves and pillars of flame in a limited range. It becomes immune to burn, and the temperature around it rises to something like that of a furnace.
	+ **Ice** - A form focused on extreme defense, though its speed suffers. It mainly uses this form when under immense pressure from attacks or as a last resort to survive.
		- **Greatsword** - An extremely large sword that requires two hands to wield. Its edge is somewhat blunt, but its weight and size makes up for that, and even allows it to be used as a shield.
		- **Enhanced Durability** - The Oni becomes even more resistant to attacks, barely being phased by most blows, physical or magical.
		- **Ice Manipulation** - The mask allows the Oni to create and manipulate ice, usually by solidifying the Oni and its greatsword, enhancing their toughness. It can also create constructs of ice to limit its enemies' movement, as well as block attacks. It becomes immune to freeze, and the temperature around it drops, causing it to be hard to approach him without freezing.
	+ **Lightning** - A form focused on offence through sheer speed. It mainly uses this form against fast and tricky opponents.
		- **Swordspear** - A type of spear with an extremely large spearhead, similar in size to the blade of a sword. It has greater piercing power and reach than the other two weapons.
		- **Enhanced Speed** - The Oni's speed is enhanced to the point where it is hard to follow it with the human eye despite its size.
		- **Lightning Manipulation** - The mask allows the Oni to create and manipulate lightning, usually by enhancing his legs to move even faster and to add additional damage when attacking. It can also summon bolts of lightning either from itself or from the sky. The area around the Oni becomes filled with electric static in the air, sometimes shocking anything nearby.
* **Unleashed Ultimate:** **Blades to Shatter Samsara** - The Oni summons the power of all three elemental masks to obliterate anything in its path. It quickly switches forms, attacking once with each weapon in an instant. Each attack is imbued with the Oni's full strength, alongside immense elemental energy. Enough elemental energy is outputted that large amounts of heat, frost and static can be felt in the air afterwards, enough to give anyone that enters burn, freeze and static at the same time when approaching.

## Trivia

* The Oni was a regular salaryman before being utterly consumed by a contract wraith.
* As the Oni is under complete control of the contract wraith and has lost its sense of self, it is constantly in Unleashed form.
* The Oni is based on Otakemaru, an oni so powerful and violent that it was considered both a demon and a god, and could summon fire and lightning from the sky. The three elemental forms of the Oni are based on Otakemaru from Nioh 2, which uses three blades of the same element.