Azami Yoshiie

### Physical Description

Long, thick white hair dyed black; tilted, wide, midnight black eyes fringed long feathery lashes;dark, liquid eyes; small waist; tattoos over scars, flat stomach

### Special Abilities

Shield
Telepathy
Teleportation
Anchor

She was one of the women experimented on by Peter Whitney.

## Early Life

Due to the torture, Thorn’s hair had turned white by the age of three, and she always felt ashamed by the scars and her hair.

Saber Wynter was forced to use her to experiment her ability on. Azami, called Thorn at the time, looked at the older girl with understanding and didn’t fight. Saber was happy she was able to send a disruption into Azami without killing her, though Whitney wouldn’t have minded if Saber had killed Azami. He felt she was a failed experiment and, therefore, expendable. Still, the results were satisfactory. At one point, she collapsed and she stopped breathing. Rose Patterson healed her without Whitney finding out.

Whitney performed many experiments on her, including giving her a nano heart when hers was failing. He often told her all the time that she wasn’t a flower, but a thorn he couldn’t change. As such, he threw her out of the program, placing her in a box and had some of the men that worked for him take her to the bad part of Kinshicho in Tokyo, not bothering to give her any tracking devices to find her later, believing she would die on the streets or in the human trafficking ring. Her little body was covered in many marks, evidence of torture conducted by Whitney. Not long after, some unscrupulous men surrounded Thorn. Mamoru Yoshiie was walking with his adopted sons and saved her. He adopted her as his daughter, teaching her the way of the samurai and telling her to live in honor. He told her that she had great honor in keeping her abilities from Whitney and that he was a fool to think she or any of the other women she was with were worthless. He renamed her Azami Yoshii. One day, Daiki made fun of her white hair. Because she was learning to control her anger, her adopted father had her clean the dojo as punishment. Daiki felt bad for what he did and shaved his hair off as an apology to her for getting her in trouble.

As she grew, she became stronger and her intelligence was apparent. However, her insecurities over her hair, scars and what Whitney said all those years ago stayed with her. She covered the scars with tattoos and dyed her hair so that she didn’t stand out. Her father supported her, but Azami always felt that she would never be able to be with a man and even that Mamoru saw that in her. Even after her father’s death, she felt that was the truth of her life. She worked hard with her brothers to create and run *Samurai Telecommunications*. She often stands in the background behind her brothers, but she works on audio communications on satellites and is the brains behind the company. However, she guards Daiki like a treasure as he is the one who is the face and head of the company.

## Samurai Game

Azami knows it’s her duty to bring Whitney down. But due to how amazing their satellites are, it was no surprise that the monster from her past would want one for himself. Still, the siblings don’t sell to just anyone and requested an in person meeting. Whitney refused and tried to offer them more money, but they insisted and he stopped inquiring. Shortly after, Lily Whitney offered to get a satellite from them and the Yoshiies traveled to the Montana compound for a meeting. Azami thought it was a good way to see what Whitney was up to, believing that Lily could be working for her father.

This wasn’t the case. In fact, Azami met Sam Johnson. She couldn’t believe that she was paired with Sam, but after learning that he was about to be sacrificed to Ezekial Ekabela, she knew she had to help Team 1. She quickly fell in love with him and they plan to get married.

## Trivia

* She has interacted with members of the original twelve girls Whitney experimented on, but she is not counted among them.