Soujirou Okita

**Soujirou Okita** (沖田 宗次郎, *Okita Sōjirō*) is one of the male protagonists of *Sengoku-jidai*.

## Appearance

Soujirou is an handsome young man of tall height, with long black hair and bluish-gray eyes. He's taller than most of the main cast, yet smaller compared to Liu Bei and Zhang Fei.

He wears the Hiei Academy boys' school uniform, which consists of a black blazer with white accents over a white, long-sleeved dress shirt with a black ribbon on the collar, matching black pants, and brown dress shoes, though he usually wears the blazer around his waist.

On normal days, he usually wears an setup inspired by the traditional Shisengumi uniform, which consists of a light blue haori and hakama over a kimono, with a white *tasuki* cord crossed over the chest and tied in the back.

## Personality

Soujirou has shown himself to have a very laid back and lazy personality.

## Powers & Abilities

**Master Swordsman:**

* **Sandanzuki** (三段突きさんだんつき, *Sandandzuki*, lit. "Three-Stage Thrust"): A famed technique of Soujirou's ancestor Okita Souji, where he launches three strikes at the same time making it a simultaneous strike. Soujirou is described as being an master of this technique, capable of doubling the amount of strikes to six.
	+ **Triskelion** (三段攻撃トリスケリオン, *Three-Stage Assault*): A technique derived from the Sandanzuki, developed by Soujirou. Like the Sandanzuki, Soujirou launches three, simultaneous strikes at the opponent, however, instead Soujirou uses his three swords for each strike.
* **Raikiri** (雷切らいきり, *Raikiri*, lit. "Lightning Cutter"):
* **Sanzensekai** (三千世界さんぜんせかい, *Sanzensekai*, lit. "Three Thousand Worlds"):

**Aka Manah:**

* **Angra Aka Manah:** In his fight against Lancelot, Soujirou managed to enter the secondary rare form Akamanahs can enter. Due to crossing the border between humans and demons, he attains an enormous boost in power at the cost of losing his humanity, becoming an actual demon. In this form, Soujirou gains cat-like eyes on his head, his sclera turn black and his irises turn red, and right arm turns into black threads, with several cat-like arms connecting his arm to his body. Whether or not he is able to access the transformation at will is yet unknown.

* **Dimensional Magic** (次元魔法じげんまほう, *Jigen Mahō*):

**Master Strategist:**

### Unlucky

**Unlucky** (不運ふう, *Fuun*?): Soujirou's D+-ranked Technique, formerly E- rank. Described as the worst-possible Technique, it gives Soujirou ever stemming bad luck which have lead to several events in Soujirou's life, such as his repeat of his first year at Hiei Academy, the shattering of Masamune, and even the death of his parents. At the beginning of the series, Soujirou had absolutely no control over his Technique, giving random spike of bad luck for him and the others. However, after training with Bedivere in Volume 19, Sojirou now displays much better control over his Technique, capable of controlling it's spikes of bad luck as well as being able to temporarily turn it off, reversing it to give himself good luck and even to revive himself.

* **Black Cat of Misfortune** (不運をもたらす黒猫浪人ブラック・キャット・オブ・ミスフォーチュン, *Burakku Kyatto obu Misufōchun*?, lit. "The Black Cat Ronin who brings Bad Luck"): Soujirou's Awakening.
	+ **Schrödinger's Cat** (自織り糸の漆黒界シュレーディンガーズ・キャット, *Shurēdingāzu Kyatto*?, lit. "Jet Black World of Self-Weaving Threads"): Soujirou's ultimate technique, where Soujirou uses Kuroito to manipulate the trillions of cells inside himself with threads in order mend himself with threads, as such,he can repair life-threatening injuries dealt to himself before, also being able to replace destroyed limbs with thread-based ones, and even summon black threads anywhere around him, allowing him to summon threads inside a opponents, choking them. It requires immense concentration and control as one mistake could kill him, it even distorted his body after using it for the first time; however, Soujirou likely overcame all these weaknesses after training with Bedivere and receiving treatment from Pelleas.
* **Lucky Star** (最大運ラッキー・スター, *Rakkī Sutā*?, lit. "Maximum Luck")
* **Unnonaizan** (運のない斬うんのないちざん, *lit. "Luckless Slash"*?)
* **Unnonai Chiten** (運のない地点うんのないちてん, *lit. "Luckless Point"*?): By affecting Calabi-Yau space with his bad luck and dimension magic, Soujirou causes the things around the area he is affecting to be trapped in the Calabi-Yau space, as the world corrects itself. The technique is extremely powerful and known power to draw from an Technique so far, with even Soujirou himself being unable to stop it once it has been activated.

## Equipment

**Swords:** Soujirou carries around an group of swords that he uses for an variety of reasons, which he usually stores in an pocket dimension made using Dimensional Magic.

* **Kashuu Kiyomitsu** (加州 清光):
* **Yamatonokami Yasusada** (大和守 安定):
* **Muramasa** (十千夜寒, *Lit. Ten-Thousand Cold Nights*):
* **Masamune** (柔らかい手, *Lit. Tender Hands*):
* **Bamboo Sword:** During school days Soujirou usually carries around an bamboo *shinai* with him.

## Trivia

* His first name Soujirou (宗次郎) mean "Religious First Son".
	+ His surname Okita (沖田) means "Offshore Field".
* Soujirou draws several similarities to Qrow Branwen from the RWBY series.
	+ Both use swords and are considered loner archetypes as caused by their powers, and have lazy and nonchalant personalities.
	+ Both are usually represented by black-colored animals that are often attributed to being signs of bad luck and misfortune (in Soujirou's case, a **Black Cat**, and Qrow, a **Crow**).
	+ Both have abilities that draw misfortune to themselves and others, as well as being unable to control or deactivate them (Soujirou's Technique **Unlucky**; and Qrow's Semblance **Misfortune**).
* Soujirou is currently the only known person in the series to have their Technique rank go up from E-, the lowest known rank, to a D+.